@ScottyMcBaggsI said nothing of Ubuntu and using sudo, btw
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I said nothing of Ubuntu and using sudo, btw. That is completely different than roles and ACLs. Roles can be assigned as needed, there does not have to be an all powerful Admin role–setting one up would defeat the point of using roles.
If you’re having that much trouble with using sudo all the time, just ’sudo su -’ once, do everything you need to do as root, then exit the shell.
You could always just change the line in the /etc/sudoers file to: %admin ALL=NOPASSWORD: ALL
Then you wont need to enter the password, but you’re opening a big security hole.
As for your rsync example, you could probably do that by tunneling rsync through SSH and using keys and a good passphrase for authentication. It’s generally a bad idea to allow root to auth via ssh, though.