How does Amazon ec2-user get its sudo rights
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I am looking for where the default Amazon AMI linux image sets up the privileges for the default ec2-user
account.
After logging in with this account I can use sudo successfully. Checking via the sudoers file, which I open by running visudo (with no other options) I see a few default settings and permissions for root ALL ALL
So ... Where is the permissions for ec2-user assigned?
I have not yet tried to add a new permission but ultimately I want to resign ec2-user for systems management tasks and use a non-full root user for administering the applications (stop and start mysql, httpd, edit apache's vhost files, and upload / edit web content under the web root)
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