root password of Fedora-18-Alpha-TC3

[Adam Williamson]

On 2012-08-30 14:50, Matthew Miller wrote:
> 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?

You're very probably right, I hadn't looked into exactly how it's 
implemented in PK.

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