Can I add myself to group `root'?

Posted by kev on Ask Ubuntu See other posts from Ask Ubuntu or by kev
Published on 2012-11-07T04:35:56Z Indexed on 2012/11/07 5:15 UTC
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$ id
uid=1000(kev) gid=1000(kev) groups=1000(kev),4(adm),24(cdrom),27(sudo),30(dip),46(plugdev),109(lpadmin),124(sambashare)

$ ls -l /etc/sudoers
-r--r----- 1 root root 723 Jan 31  2012 /etc/sudoers

$ sudo adduser kev root
Adding user `kev' to group `root' ...
Adding user kev to group root
Done.

$ cat /etc/sudoers
cat: /etc/sudoers: Permission denied

After adding myself(kev) to group root, I still cannot read /etc/sudoers.

I don't know why. Thanks for your help.

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