configuring sudo by default (was: Re: Today's (9/12) rawhide all users = unable to authenticate user!)

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Sat Sep 13 12:06:36 UTC 2008


On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 02:02:12PM +0200, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> But a checkbox with a text "User is the sysadmin for this system" might 
> makes sense in firstboot -- that checkbox could not only configure sudo 
> and/or PolicyKit access but also do other things like setting up a alias to 
> /etc/aliases to make sure the user in question retrieves the mail send to 
> root.

If we do this (and I'm for it), we should make this work by uncommenting the
wheel group in /etc/sudoers, and having said checkbox add the user to the
wheel group.


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Matthew Miller           mattdm at mattdm.org          <http://mattdm.org/>




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