Re: Changes to sudo

On 10/13/25 8:17 PM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> On 10/13/25 12:06 PM, Robert McBroom wrote:
>>
>> On 10/7/25 12:33 AM, Samuel Sieb wrote:
>>> On 10/6/25 7:15 AM, Robert McBroom via test wrote:
>>>> Installed Fedora-Cloud-Base-Generic-43_Beta-1.3.x86_64.qcow2 on a 
>>>> qemu/ kvm virtual machine. Edited sudoers to activate the wheel 
>>>> group. Created a user and added them to the wheel group.
>>>>
>>>> Can't use sudo to get privileged execution. Tried restarting the 
>>>> session, still not allowed.
>>>>
>>>> How is the privilege to be allowed?
>>>
>>> "wheel" is allowed sudo access by default.  What did you change?
>>>
>> This install now invokes rawhide. After installing tried to use sudo 
>> with the assigned user. Received the message the user was not 
>> priviledged.  In a root terminal added the
>>
>> user to wheel. Still not allowed. "visudo" showed a comment character 
>> on the wheel entry. Put the user in as (ALL) ALL now had priviledged 
>> access.
>
> Did you re-login the user?  That's the only way to update the active 
> groups.  Or "su - username" in a terminal will update the groups in 
> that particular shell.
>
After giving blanket access to the user, it's hard to say
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