On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 17:43 -0500, Adam Jackson wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 16:39 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > > I believe Fedora 17 has an add user to admin group checkbox when > > adding the initial user, not sure if it is checked on or off by default. > > Off by default (having just tried it today). In case anyone's wondering what that actually does, here's what I can figure out. What it does directly is to add the user to the 'wheel' group. I'm not sure what all the consequences of that are, but there's two I've been able to find. The first is that the default /etc/sudoers allows people in the wheel group to run any command as root, which is great and all, but we don't use sudo for anything at the desktop level, so it really only affects people who run sudo from the console. The other thing it does, if I'm reading stuff right, is that users in the wheel group are considered 'admins' by PolicyKit. That's good. Now as to what that means, I'm not 100% sure, but I *think* what it means is that for any action which would require a non-admin user to authenticate as root, an admin user can authenticate as themselves. i.e. instead of a root password dialog, you'd get a your-own-password dialog. I might be off base there, though, and if I am I'm sure someone smarter will correct me. :) -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
