Re: Make an existing user part of Administrators

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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:10:02PM +0000, Bill Oliver wrote:
> From the documentation,
> (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/sn-firstboot-systemuser.html
> )
> it seems that checking on "administrator" just puts the user in the
> wheel group.

It just does that, *but*, many things in the distribution, including sudo,
consolehelper, and policykit, are configured to understand that this means
that the user is an admin.

> Odd -- I thought "wheel" had been deprecated years ago, and was kept in
> only for backwards compatibility.  Who knew.

Many people? :)

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