From: Michael Pfeifroth <redacted>
Date: Tue, 4 Aug 2026 15:25:32 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: sudo: create sudo group
X-Git-Url: http://git.99rst.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6b5954ef81534f775510a03ef2b529df4f634e42;p=openwrt-packages.git

sudo: create sudo group

Add a 'sudo' system group at package-install time using the USERID
mechanism.

Rationale: sudoers configurations that grant privileges to the 'sudo'
group -- the near-universal Debian/Ubuntu idiom, e.g.

    %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

-- fail silently on OpenWrt today because no 'sudo' group exists in
/etc/group.  sudo(8) logs 'unknown group: sudo' and the rule is skipped.
Users also cannot 'usermod -aG sudo <user>' without the group present,
so there is no straightforward way to delegate root without hand-editing
/etc/group or writing per-user sudoers snippets.

Seeding the group here matches how OpenWrt already handles other
service accounts (chrony, dbus, ntpd, ...): the USERID mechanism
creates them lazily via add_group_and_user in the postinst script.

No privileges are granted by default -- an administrator still has to
add users to the group and ship a sudoers rule that references it.

No numeric GID is pinned. The group name is what sudoers, addgroup(1),
and getgrnam() operate on; the numeric GID is invisible to sudo's
authorisation path and matters only for on-disk group ownership
metadata (e.g. 'chgrp sudo' persisted to shared storage) -- something
this package does not do. Letting add_group_and_user pick a dynamic
GID in the 32768+ range keeps sudo out of base-files' reserved
low-range group space and avoids any name-vs-number collision debate.

Bump PKG_RELEASE.

Signed-off-by: Michael Pfeifroth <redacted>
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diff --git a/admin/sudo/Makefile b/admin/sudo/Makefile
index 7e2c602c2..07e9a8d69 100644
--- a/admin/sudo/Makefile
+++ b/admin/sudo/Makefile
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
 PKG_NAME:=sudo
 PKG_REALVERSION:=1.9.17p2
 PKG_VERSION:=$(subst p,_p,$(PKG_REALVERSION))
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 
 PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_REALVERSION).tar.gz
 PKG_SOURCE_URL:=https://www.sudo.ws/dist
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@ define Package/sudo
   CATEGORY:=Administration
   TITLE:=Delegate authority to run commands
   URL:=https://www.sudo.ws/
+  USERID:=:sudo
   DEPENDS:= +USE_GLIBC:libcrypt-compat
 endef