How To Restart Sudo Service on Ubuntu 16.10

Question

I just migrated over to Ubuntu 16.10 from Debian Testing and modified the sudoers file, but there doesn't appear to be a 'sudo' service that I can restart to get it to recognize the changes.

Does this involve some SystemD magic?

I don't think you need to do anything besides modify the file. — TheWanderer, Nov 16 '16 at 18:21
Changes should take effect right away, sudo is a command not a service. — Panther, Nov 16 '16 at 18:39

score 7 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 17 '16 at 09:14

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There is no service working beyond sudo. When someone executes sudo it checks the sudoers policy. And sudoers policy checks the /etc/sudoers file or LDAP.

So you don’t need to restart any service.

edited Nov 17 '16 at 09:14

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answered Nov 16 '16 at 20:29

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How To Restart Sudo Service on Ubuntu 16.10

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