Newer versions of Ubuntu have switched from using the "admin" group

to the "sudo" group to align with Debian.  create_admin_success_flag()
now accepts either one.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/1387347

diff --git a/plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c b/plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c
index d95ba806768744913103af6679e1966810b4a153..2e3137682c80848a7815123b5ba6be12227d45f2 100644 (file)
--- a/plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c
+++ b/plugins/sudoers/sudoers.c
@@ -1266,8 +1266,9 @@ create_admin_success_flag(void)
     int len, rval = -1;
     debug_decl(create_admin_success_flag, SUDOERS_DEBUG_PLUGIN)
 
-    /* Check whether the user is in the admin group. */
-    if (!user_in_group(sudo_user.pw, "admin"))
+    /* Check whether the user is in the sudo or admin group. */
+    if (!user_in_group(sudo_user.pw, "sudo") &&
+       !user_in_group(sudo_user.pw, "admin"))
        debug_return_int(true);
 
     /* Build path to flag file. */