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On 11/14/2012 04:22 AM, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> On Tue Nov 13 17:25:14 UTC 2012 Matthew Miller wrote:
>> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking here. You can use the
>> graphical users and groups tool to add people to the wheel group.
>
>
On Tue Nov 13 17:25:14 UTC 2012 Matthew Miller wrote:
> I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking here. You can use the
> graphical users and groups tool to add people to the wheel group.
I'll try to explain better.
Tipically when I want to give my user admin privileges (on F16 and F17
for
Heh. I just remember back when I was a grad student using UNIX, "wheel" *was* root, was in the /etc/passwd file, and
there was no such thing as root. I swear I distinctly remember running an IRIX network back in the 90s when root was no longer
"wheel" but suddenly became "root," and "wheel" w
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 05:54:50PM +0100, Gianluca Cecchi wrote:
> I only see some references to his reply (such as install doc link) in
> other users' replies...
> It would also be good to see the "other things" as written by Matthew Miller:
> "
> ... many things in the distribution, including sud
Hi,
I don't directly get ml e-mails in my inbox and I see that Bill Oliver
post is empty at archive link:
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2012-November/426712.html
I only see some references to his reply (such as install doc link) in
other users' replies...
It would also be good to
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:10:02PM +, Bill Oliver wrote:
> From the documentation,
> (http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/sn-firstboot-systemuser.html
> )
> it seems that checking on "administrator" just puts the user in the
> wheel group.
It just does that, *
On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 04:10:02PM +, Bill Oliver wrote:
>
> Odd -- I thought "wheel" had been deprecated years ago, and was kept in
> only for backwards compatibility. Who knew.
>
reference?
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From the documentation,
(http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html/Installation_Guide/sn-firstboot-systemuser.html
)
it seems that checking on "administrator" just puts the user in the
wheel group.
Odd -- I thought "wheel" had been deprecated years ago, and was kept in
only for backward
