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What are the percentage signs for in the sudoers file?
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Mar 15, 20267983 viewsConfidence Score0%
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In my sudoers file, there are lines that begin with , lines that begin with and lines that begin with neither. The is definitely being used to comment out lines, but what does the do? Is it a comment marker too?
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A percent sign is used to indicate that the identifier that follows should be used as the name of a group instead of a user.
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