FC11 logging in as root - FC10 change not enough?

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 13:31:06 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:53 +0000, Dave Cross wrote:
> Steps I always take on a new Fedora box to make my life easier.
> 
> 1/ "su -" to become root.

In fact a simple "su" will do here. You're just editing a couple of
files.

> 2/ "visudo" to edit the sudoers file.
> 3/ Uncomment the first line referencing the "wheel" group.
> 4/ Save the file.
> 5/ Edit "/etc/groups" to add myself to the wheel group.
> 6/ Exit from "su -".


poc




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