Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop

[Peter Laursen]

"There's an option in initial-setup "make user an Administrator" that
basically does this, not sure if the gnome equiv does the same."


I noticed that option, but did not understand the meaning of it. "Make user
a sudo'er" would be better  think. Anyway it explains.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Elad Alfassa <elad at fedoraproject.org>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Peter Laursen <jazcyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >>
> >> 1) I think *deifnitely* that the "Yum Extender" software management GUI
> >> should be included in the  Desktop version as default. I was not aware
> of
> >> this interface untill someone in Virtualbox Forums pointed my attention
> to
> >> it.
> >
> >
> > We have gnome-software, which is better for end users in my opinion. It
> > shows actual apps instead of thousands of library packages that confuse
> new
> > users. I don't think we want to change this.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 2) The (human) user created during installation should be added to
> >> sudo'ers list automatically. I cannot think of any other Desktop
> oriented
> >> distro that does not.  If you are not a *Fedora hawk* , hs no experience
> >> with Linux, this is actually somewhat non-trivial.
> >
> >
> > AFAIK users creating during the initial setup process (after you finish
> with
> > Anaconda) automatically get added to the wheel group which means they get
> > sudo access. I don't know about the user creation in Anaconda - but I
> think
> > that the user creation in Anaconda is not a thing we want in Workstation
> at
> > all.
>
> There's an option in initial-setup "make user an Administrator" that
> basically does this, not sure if the gnome equiv does the same.
>
> Peter
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Peter Laursen
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