What is the difference between the 'sudo' and 'admin' group?

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Published on 2011-05-17T01:48:03Z Indexed on 2012/04/16 11:45 UTC
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I noticed that two groups are granted similar-looking permissions in /etc/sudoers:

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

My user account with "Administer the system" privileges is in the admin group, and there don't appear to be any users in the sudo group. What are these two groups for?

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