Re: F36 Change: Users are administrators by default in the installer GUI. (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 22:39 +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> On Tue, 2021-11-30 at 16:03 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 11:13:19AM +0000, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > I don't use sudo , and I'm against the use of sudo  , Fedora
> > > tradition
> > > do things as root .
> > 
> > I hope we don't! Doing things with least required privilege is an
> > important
> > security principle, one which was actually pioneered here with the
> > usermode/consolehelper tools and then policykit and dbus helpers for
> > GUI
> > applications. And we've been putting people in `wheel` by default and
> > configuring sudo in the corresponding way since... F15, I think.
> 
> yes , I mean be administrator with sudo (more than like in Debian, is
> like in Ubuntu) and do commands like `sudo dnf` I guess  .
> As subject says "Users are administrators" and use sudo to execute all
> kind of administration, I prefer do `su -` and execute the commands,
> that what I meant by "I don't use sudo" .

You know you can just do "sudo su" if you prefer that style, right?
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