user created at install added in sudoers ?

[Arthur Pemberton]

On 6/19/07, 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.
>
>
>  Regards
>  Chris

+1 for "Giving this user administrative privileges"

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