On Thu, 2012-03-01 at 21:53 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > 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. :) No, you pretty much nailed it. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
