root password of Fedora-18-Alpha-TC3

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Aug 30 21:50:50 UTC 2012


On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 12:03:39PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> (Of course, as in Ubuntu, if you don't like the model and want to
> stick with the old-school system instead, you can just do 'sudo
> passwd' to set a password for the root user and take your user out
> of the 'wheel' group so it can't use sudo any more, though I don't
> know a one-command way to make your user a non-admin user for
> PolicyKit, hence causing it to ask you for the root password rather
> than your own for admin operations).

Removing yourself from wheel should do that too, shouldn't it? (I believe
it's implemented by "AdminIdentities=unix-group:wheel".) Or am I missing
something?

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect -- SEAS Computing
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences


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