Thoughts about Fedora 21 Desktop

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Dec 09, 2014 at 09:51:03AM -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > >> It's also not really accurate. It also grants different PolicyKit
> > >> privileges, it is not only to do with sudo.
> > > _And_ consolekit. At least if that stuff is still in there. :)
> > consolekit? really? Welcome to 2014 -> logind ;)
> Neither have anything to do with it. gnome-initial-setup calls into the
> accountsservice to set the account type of the created local account to
> 'Administrator', which adds the user to the wheel group.

.... and, being in the wheel group grants more than just sudo access --
it grants different PolicyKit privileges and enables auth-as-self in
consolekit.

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader