New install, report and questions

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 10:36:38PM +0200, Erik Bågfors wrote:

> After installation I created another user to test, that one didn't have
> admin rights and cannot use sudo.  That user still has all the
> root-utilities in the menu, he/she can try to use synaptic but it doesn't
> work. The first time I tried I got a question asking for the users
> password, then nothing happened, no error message, no nothing.
> 
> After that I don't even get asked a password, it just doesn't do anything.
> 
> Either that user shouldn't get those items in the menu or there should be
> a "you don't have administrative rights"-message showing up when trying to
> use them.
> 
> Also, is it possible to change the setup for sudo so that instead of the
> installer adding the user to /etc/sudoers it could add a group to it??
> That way it would be very easy to make a user an administrator when
> creating a new user by simply adding that user to the group.

For now, we default to a relatively safe configuration where the user has
access to devices, but not to root.  This avoids a situation where the
initial user gives away administrative privileges without realizing it.  In
the future, when adding a new user in the GUI, you will be able to select to
what extent the user should be privileged.

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 - mdz