On 06/11/2013 01:23 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Or, on Fedora, add yourself to the "wheel" group (and log out and in again). You can do this with "User Manager" tool in gnome, or with gpasswd wheel -a username as root or via sudo from another user with sudo privs.
I tried putting myself into wheel once when I did a clean install. I found it very off-putting, to say the least, to find that giving the root password when prompted (or so I thought) didn't work because the system was expecting *my* password, not root's. As soon as I understood what had happened, I removed myself from wheel, so that I could administer both machines in the same way. YMMV, of course, and if you're fairly new to Linux, you might find giving your password instead of root's more intuitive.
On a side note (F#) when I first started learning about *nix, one of the things I didn't like is the fact that there were so many different ways to get the same thing done, depending on (among other things) which shell you were using. Now, I've grown to like it because it means that different people with different needs and/or tastes can all do things the way they like instead of there being One True Way. Using su or sudo is just another example.
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