How does sudo work these days in F10 ?

[Sharpe, Sam J]

Leslie Satenstein wrote:
> With Fedora, sudo asks for the root password, which is the correct way.
> 
> With UBUNTU, it asks for the user password, which means that you cannot 
> let others share your logon id and password.
> 
> Shame on Ubuntu.
> 

That's not true. It depends very much on how you set up Sudo - and the 
easiest way is to ask for your password - it's very difficult to get 
sudo to prompt for the root password.

What you are confused about is all those windows prompting you for the 
root password - they are not generated via sudo - they are part of 
PolicyKit, which is the framework Fedora uses for authorising privileged 
access.

You can adjust PolicyKit from "System -> Preferences -> System -> 
Authorisations"

- If set to "Admin Authentication" the root password will be prompted for.
- If set to "Authentication" then the user's password will be prompted for.

Some authorisations are also still controlled through 
consolehelper/userhelper - these can be adjusted using the files in 
/etc/security/console.apps/ - If you add the line "UGROUP=wheel" then 
anyone in the wheel group will be asked for their own password instead 
of roots.

The dual-configuration places will eventually collapse when the Fedora 
guys move everything to PolicyKit, but until then, you need to fiddle 
with multiple places.