Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop

Adam Williamson adamwill at fedoraproject.org
Tue Dec 9 03:58:40 UTC 2014


On Mon, 2014-12-08 at 08:43 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 01:27:42PM +0100, Peter Laursen wrote:
> > "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.
> 
> There's a tradeoff, there, of course. Saying "a sudo'er" is more
> clear if you know exactly what sudo is, and much more confusing if you
> don't. 
> 
> I guess we could include the classic Xkcd on the screen. :)

It's also not really accurate. It also grants different PolicyKit
privileges, it is not only to do with sudo.
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