Fedora 18 Alpha RC2 - root user, installation

Kamil Paral kparal at redhat.com
Tue Sep 11 14:18:08 UTC 2012


> I'm just doing a fresh install of Fedora 18 Alpha RC2 and I must say
> I'm
> confused.
> 
> During first stage of installation I've chosen (I think that I was
> forced by the installer) not to create root account. But after
> reboot,
> when creating first user there is and option to add that user to
> admin
> group which is not checked by default.
> 
> If I leave this option unchecked, so there is no user with admin
> privileges, how am I suppose to manage my system without root
> account? I
> assume that it's mandatory to be in admin group to be able to use
> sudo.
> Am I right?
> 
> 
> Mateusz Marzantowicz

You are right. Reported:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=856194


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