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List the members of the sudo group

harmlessSecuritydebian, ubuntu
user@server
getent group sudo

Shows the group entry of the sudo group with all members at the end of the line. On Debian and Ubuntu, members of this group may run any command as root by default. getent also takes groups from LDAP or other sources into account.

Note: Privileges can also be granted directly in /etc/sudoers or files under /etc/sudoers.d/. Check these as root with grep -rv '^#' /etc/sudoers.d/.

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