On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:54:21PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote: > 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 Here I think you're talking about the policykit dialogs in the desktop, right? The prompt should be different for auth-as-self vs. auth-as-root. > 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. Well, in any case you might find it "like sudo". > 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. Yep. I wrote little essay on the relative merits of sudo and root login on Stack Exchange, which might be interesting for anyone for whom this whole thread is interesting: http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/8588/2511 -- Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
