On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 07:27:24AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
On 03/31/2011 03:20 AM, Jared K. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Scott Robbins <scottro(a)nyc.rr.com> wrote:
>> It looks as if, from this one test install, as if adding the user to
>> admin users automatically adds them to wheel, and that in /etc/sudoers,
>> wheel is already able to execute all commands (whereas in the past, that
>> line was commented out.) Was that just an oddity, or is it by design?
> >From what (little?) I understand, it's by design.
I can confirm it is, It should really should have gone through the
feature process but noone bothered to do one and it is going to take
some extra time to get it documented in the release notes as a result of
this but I fully intend to followup when I can.
Thanks for the confirmation. Actually, I think many Fedora users are
people who come from Ubuntu and its offshoots, so this will probably
avoid some confusion.
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