Sudo for first user

Bastien Nocera bnocera at redhat.com
Wed Jan 21 16:42:15 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 16:58 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Colin Walters wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Rahul Sundaram
> > <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >> Colin Walters wrote:
> >>> On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 12:14 PM, Rahul Sundaram
> >>> <sundaram at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >>>> Hi
> >>>>
> >>>> You can add the following snippet to the fedora-desktop ks file into a
> >>>> init
> >>>> script to make sudo just work for the first user. It can't be added to
> >>>> %post
> >>>> since firstboot wouldn't have launched then. Let me know what you think:
> >>> So, consensus to revisit this for F11?  We can go ahead and make a
> >>> feature page now with the plans.
> >> Hey, are you doing this still?
> > 
> > Do we have a feature proposal?
> 
> Not yet. Do you want me to create one? The biggest difficulty is the use 
> of consolehelper (which has no support for sudo).

Why not add the first user to wheel instead? It's easily changeable
programmatically, and would mean that PolicyKit would do the right
thing.

Cheers




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