Fix complete sudo lockout on Kubuntu 25.10#21
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…up detection Agent-Logs-Url: https://github.com/miheerdew/delayed-admin/sessions/4d9bcbef-acee-4096-bb43-7d87900b3e87 Co-authored-by: miheerdew <3489337+miheerdew@users.noreply.github.com>
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[WIP] Fix sudo not working on Kubuntu 25.10
Fix complete sudo lockout on Kubuntu 25.10
May 2, 2026
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After installation and locking, users on Kubuntu 25.10 were locked out of both
sudoandsudo delayed— the latter being the intended escape hatch.Changes
delayed-admin.sudoers— addNOPASSWD:Without
NOPASSWD:,sudo delayedrequires PAM authentication. On Kubuntu 25.10 (and potentially other newer distros), PAM restricts sudo auth to members of thesudogroup — so once a user locks themselves (removed fromsudo, added todelayed-admin), they can't authenticate for sudo at all. The CI test runner already overrode the file to addNOPASSWD:, making this the intended runtime behavior. Security is provided by the time delay, not the password prompt.lib/linux.sh— more robustadmin_group()detectionkubuntuand other Ubuntu derivatives (linuxmint,pop,neon,elementary,zorin)grep-basedID_LIKEfallback for unrecognized distro IDs (avoids subshell-sourcing/etc/os-release)sudoorwheelgroup actually exists on the systemADMIN_GROUPto an empty string