When creating an account, I am pretty sure there is a toggle box of whether the account is for an administrator or not. I suspect toggling that has the effect that some on this thread desire. For a normal single user system, I am glad that such a toggle exists and gives me some power that is much needed in many cases. On 20 October 2014 17:10, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 20 October 2014 07:45, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 06:21:54AM -0700, James Patterson wrote: >> > I'd like consistent behavior please. >> >> When possible, that is ideal. But yum doesn't have a built-in privilege >> escalation mechanism to do this. >> >> > Typing yum install requires a password, so should be the behaviour for >> > running a command that doesn't exist causing a package to be installed. >> >> Only signed packages from system repositories can be installed. >> > > So if I mistype 'rm' as rn or rb will lrzsz or rn be installed so that it > does the wrong thing next time? Or is this only some commands? And beyond > removing someone from the wheel group what is the way to turn this off? > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
