Today I learned about sudoers -- Wait here me out!

I've been working with linux machines for a long time, but damn sometimes I must have missed some basics along the line that have propogated for years. I've been getting into using ansible to configure my virtual machines on proxmox. Ansible is a really nice tool and I'm aware their are other utilities like Chef, Puppet and Salt.

Today I learned that in by default:

- Within Debian Distributions there is a default wheel group, but a wheel group

- Within Arch/Redhat Distributions there is no default sudo group, but a wheel group

When creating a file within the /etc/sudoers.d directory, filenames can not end in ~ or contain a . -- yes that's a period in the name. So unlike many other ".d" directory which kind of expect a .conf extension, add .conf to a file within the /etc/sudoers.d directory will be ignored: