On 06/11/2013 01:23 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Or, on Fedora, add yourself to the "wheel" group (and log out and in again).
You can do this with "User Manager" tool in gnome, or with
gpasswd wheel -a username
as root or via sudo from another user with sudo privs.
I tried putting myself into wheel once when I did a clean install. I
found it very off-putting, to say the least, to find that giving the
root password when prompted (or so I thought) didn't work because the
system was expecting *my* password, not root's. As soon as I understood
what had happened, I removed myself from wheel, so that I could
administer both machines in the same way. YMMV, of course, and if
you're fairly new to Linux, you might find giving your password instead
of root's more intuitive.
On a side note (F#) when I first started learning about *nix, one of the
things I didn't like is the fact that there were so many different ways
to get the same thing done, depending on (among other things) which
shell you were using. Now, I've grown to like it because it means that
different people with different needs and/or tastes can all do things
the way they like instead of there being One True Way. Using su or sudo
is just another example.
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