Omega - Sudo for first user?

[Jarod Wilson]

On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 20:13 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If I stuck this portion into the fedora-live initscript, it would enable 
> sudo for the first user entered during firstboot. Does this seem like a 
> sensible thing to do? Does anyone have the details handy on modifying 
> consolehelper as well?
> 
> -----------------
> 
> # check for the first user and add it to user wheel and then to sudoers
> 
> USER=$( grep 500 /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 )
> GROUPS=$( groups $USER )
> if ! groups $USER | grep -q wheel ; then
>         usermod -G wheel $USER
>         echo "%wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL" >> /etc/sudoers
> fi
> 
> 
> EOF

If you go the %wheel route, don't echo it onto the bottom of the file,
sed the line that's already in there with a hash in front of it.

----8<----
## Allows people in group wheel to run all commands
# %wheel        ALL=(ALL)       ALL
----8<----

Otherwise, you've got both the commented and uncommented versions of
that line in there, and the actual active one is nowhere near the
explanation comment.

However, I'd keep an eye on this:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=135592

Sounds like its being considered, and might also include an "enable sudo
for this user" option.


-- 
Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com