Does Fedora 13 add the user account created during the install to the administrators?

[eindoofus]

Hi everyone, I'm new to this forum and I'm installing Fedora 15.

While installing Fedora 15 on the "Create User" screen it gives me the option to "Add to Administrators group" which doesn't show up in the Fedora 13 install.

Does Fedora 13 add the user account created during the install to the administrators group?

Thanks,
Mark

[Dutchy]

Does the 'id"-command come up with a wheel group?
Then you should be an administrator just like on F15.

[eindoofus]

For the "id" I get:

uid=500(jmark) gid=500(jmark) groups=500(jmark) context=unconfined_u:unconfined_r:unconfined_t:s0-s0:c0.c1023

Do I just change wheel in /etc/group to:

wheel:x:10:root,jmark

to make jmark an adminstrator. Right now it is:

wheel:x:10:root

[PabloTwo]

If you add user jmark to the wheel group, then jmark get admin privileges using the sudo command. But first you would need to uncomment one of these two lines in the /etc/sudoers file:

# %wheel	ALL=(ALL)	ALL
# %wheel	ALL=(ALL)	NOPASSWD: ALL

Uncommenting the second line shown means jmark would not be required to enter his user password when using sudo to execute something that required admin privileges.

[eindoofus]

Thanks, it appears that I broke my Fedora 13 VM since I made my posted change without uncommenting those two lines you showed me.

Now the system appears to freeze after the OS loading bar finishes it's animation on bootup.

Can that really break the system, and if so, is there an quick fix for this?

[PabloTwo]

I don't think adding user jmark to the wheel group in itself would do anything to bork your system. And about uncommenting one or the other of those two lines mentioned, uncomment ONE or the OTHER, but not both.

You could probably undo your /etc/group edit (if you feel that's what's causing the problem) by booting into run level 1 (single user) mode. At the grub menu screen hit the A key and then type the number 1 to append that to the end of the kernel line and then hit ENTER. You'll be in console mode as root.

[eindoofus]

Thanks, how can I bring up the grub menu when booting?

[sea]

sudo gedit /boot/grub/grub.conf
timeout=5

If that file is empty, the ending would be .cfg

[PabloTwo]

By default the grub menu is hidden. To bring it up, you have to hit <any key> just at the right moment after the bios POST. It can be tricky, since the timeout is also way too short. To correct this, once you do get booted into a usuable console, you can edit the /etc/grub/grub.conf file so that the line:

hiddenmenu

becomes...

#hiddenmenu

and the line:

timeout=some_number

becomes.....

timeout=5

The timeout is in seconds. With those two edits, the grub menu will always appear at boot up and hold for 5 seconds before continuing on it's own unless you press a key to do something.