root in FC 10

Dave Cross davorg at gmail.com
Sat Dec 6 19:20:26 UTC 2008


2008/12/6 Todd Zullinger <tmz at pobox.com>:
> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>Disabling root login is a common security practice. Sounds like it's
>>>been disabled by default in F10. That's got to be a good thing.
>>
>> Apparently so, but then the install doesn't add the one user it asks
>> you to define to the sudoers file, and to fix that requires a reboot
>> to single mode.
>
> No it doesn't.  You run "su -c visudo" and add the user you want.

I find it easier to edit /etc/group and add myself to the 'wheel'
group. That group has full sudo access.

Dave...




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