No, it's not that risky because members of group admin can also run sudo. In fact, the security is better than having a root account with a set password, because having a root password means you need to give it to some people. In the current case, every admin has his password.
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu) Status: Needs Info => Rejected -- [network-admin] network-admin can be run without root-rights https://launchpad.net/bugs/63766 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs