Fedora 18 Alpha RC2 - root user, installation

Mateusz Marzantowicz mmarzantowicz at osdf.com.pl
Tue Sep 11 14:52:50 UTC 2012


On 11.09.2012 16:18, Kamil Paral wrote:
>> 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

Thanks, I had a problem finding correct bug report, but now I see that
it's known to Fedora developers.


Mateusz Marzantowicz


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