Allow local administrators

This allows or prevents client machine to have local users gaining administrators privilege on the machine.

  • Type: privilege

  • Key: /allow-local-admins

Note: -

  • Enabled: This leaves the default rules for the “sudo” and “admin” rule intact.

  • Disabled: This denies root privileges to the predefined administrator groups (sudo and admin).

An Ubuntu Pro subscription on the client is required to apply this policy.

Metadata

Element

Value

Location

Computer Policies -> Ubuntu -> Client management -> Privilege Authorization -> Allow local administrators

Registry Key

Software\Policies\Ubuntu\privilege\allow-local-admins

Element type

Class:

Machine