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Explore Stack Internal By default, your initial user (and other users listed as "Admins") will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
By default, your initial user will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
By default, your initial user (and other users listed as "Admins") will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
By default, your initial user will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
By default, your initial user will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
By default, your initial user will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.
macOS uses its "Open Directory" service for storing the login details of new users, not the /etc/passwd file. See man opendirectoryd on your macOS system for more information about that.
By default, your initial user will be in the admin group, and there's a line in /etc/sudoers on macOS reading
%admin ALL = (ALL) ALL which gives members of the admin group rights to use sudo.