user created at install added in sudoers ?

[Chris Brown]

On 19/06/07, Chris Brown <snecklifter at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 19/06/07, Jima <jima at beer.tclug.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Axel wrote:
> > > What do you think about adding the user created at install to the
> > sudoers
> > > list ?
> > >
> > > For newbies like me, understanding the sudoers file isn't so easy, but
> > > nevertheless they may need the sudo command. In my case, I'd rather my
> > > account would have been added automatically to the sudoers list :)
> >
> >   I personally can't agree with this, as suggested.  If, however, there
> > were a checkbox (defaulted off!) saying "add this user to wheel group"
> > (or
> > whichever group), you'd get my vote.
> >
>
> I like this option but would prefer something more newbie-friendly such
> as:
>
> "Add this user to sudo list"
> or
> "Give this user root privileges (with sudo)"
> or
> "Make this user an administrator (sudo)"
> or some such.
>
> Whatever, it would be good to see this in F8 as the code is already there
> and like Axel I find it a useful feature of other Linux distributions.


I have re-opened the original RFE and linked to this discussion.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=86188

Regards
Chris

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