On 13/1/20 07:29, Stephen Morris wrote:
On 13/1/20 03:32, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 1/11/20 6:34 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 2020-01-12 10:24, Samuel Sieb wrote:
FWIW, the "System Settings" process that I'm talking about simply
places the user in the "wheel"
group.
Yes, that's what administrator rights means for a user.
I also should have asked "how" the OP lost admin privileges since it
was stated by the OP
"Removing the privilege has removed my account from sudoers" which
is inconsistent with the
the "wheel" group assumption.
For a typical user, not being able to use sudo would mean not being
in sudoers. And in a way it's correct. If you aren't in the wheel
group, you're not included by the sudoers file any more.
Hi Samuel and ED, I encountered this issue as I was trying Gnome under
Xorg and KDE as the upgrade I did from F30 to F31 has caused Wayland
to not work properly on my system. I have another thread around the
Wayland issue (as a side issue to this, in another vm image I
reinstalled F29 from scratch and upgraded it to F31 and the Wayland
issue still occurs). While I was checking whether KDE exhibited the
issues I was looking at my account in settings and it had and it had
the administrative privileges checkbox set. Incorrectly thinking that
meant that administrative privileges were permanently set rather than
through sudo, I unchecked the setting. After this I tried to use
kwrite to update /etc/default/grub, as the upgrade to F31 overwrote
the changes I had in there, but kwrite was unable to save my changes
because I was not in sudoers. I also tried using sudo in both a KDE
and Gnome shell, under KDE and Gnome, and under both when I used it I
got the message that I wasn't in the sudoers list and that the
violation would be reported.
I do not have the root user active, as having installed KDE from Gnome
via the Plasma group in dnf, I was not prompted to supply a root
password, and I also thought that Fedora was like other distributions
and disallowed the use of the root account.
Following the instructions in the link provided by Patrick Laimbock I
have enabled the root account by setting its password, and used it to
add the administrative privilege back to my account under KDE. In
testing whether the Wayland issue happened on a new account, I created
an account for my wife which I have also added the administrative
privilege to so that I have a backup account I can use if I cause this
issue again.
regards,
Steve
regards,
Steve
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