-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/14/2012 04:22 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote: > On Tue Nov 13 17:25:14 UTC 2012 Matthew Miller wrote: >> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking here. You can use the >> graphical users and groups tool to add people to the wheel group. > > I'll try to explain better. Tipically when I want to give my user admin > privileges (on F16 and F17 for example), I simply do this: 1) add the user > to the wheel group 2) uncomment one of these lines in pre-configured > sudoers file > > #%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL # %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL > > depending if I want the user to always type their password or not This way > of doing things comes from seeing that in sudoers already exists this > pre-defined group "wheel", so I don't go through creating another group for > the same target. So far so good. > > During install phase for testing of F18 Beta TC7-8 I noticed this flag "Add > to Administrators group" where you have to create a new user. (I remember > it is there also at least in F17 but I didn't use it before...) So a > natural question arose regarding what this flag does (only steps 1) and 2) > above or other things such as selinux commands ecc?) to eventually learn > other ways of reaching the same target, possibly also after the > installation phase.... > > Call it curiosity for better understanding..... > > Gianluca > It does not do anything with SELinux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlCjuQsACgkQrlYvE4MpobPrXwCgmitIX+N9iQ0l5BbrYmAv/Piy ot4AnR+ovA/RUsGyU7JPuzH4h/mk7t3I =viHl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
