On Tue Nov 13 17:25:14 UTC 2012 Matthew Miller wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking here. You can use the
graphical users and groups tool to add people to the wheel group.
I'll try to explain better.
Tipically when I want to give my user admin privileges (on F16 and F17
for
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On 11/14/2012 04:22 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
On Tue Nov 13 17:25:14 UTC 2012 Matthew Miller wrote:
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking here. You can use the
graphical users and groups tool to add people to the wheel group.
I'll
From the documentation,
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/sn-firstboot-systemuser.html
)
it seems that checking on administrator just puts the user in the
wheel group.
Odd -- I thought wheel had been deprecated years ago, and was kept in
only for backwards
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:10:02PM +, Bill Oliver wrote:
Odd -- I thought wheel had been deprecated years ago, and was kept in
only for backwards compatibility. Who knew.
reference?
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On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:10:02PM +, Bill Oliver wrote:
From the documentation,
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/sn-firstboot-systemuser.html
)
it seems that checking on administrator just puts the user in the
wheel group.
It just does that, *but*,
Hi,
I don't directly get ml e-mails in my inbox and I see that Bill Oliver
post is empty at archive link:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-November/426712.html
I only see some references to his reply (such as install doc link) in
other users' replies...
It would also be good to
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 05:54:50PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
I only see some references to his reply (such as install doc link) in
other users' replies...
It would also be good to see the other things as written by Matthew Miller:
... many things in the distribution, including sudo,
Heh. I just remember back when I was a grad student using UNIX, wheel *was* root, was in the /etc/passwd file, and
there was no such thing as root. I swear I distinctly remember running an IRIX network back in the 90s when root was no longer
wheel but suddenly became root, and wheel was all
