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This post describes how to allow users in the wheel group to use the sudo command without being prompted for the root password Edit /etc/sudoers Uncomment the line %WHEEL ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Add a user to the wheel group # gpasswd -a username wheel This does also work on Fedora and other Redhat based distributions.
Download the Fedora disk image from a mirror: # wget http://mirrors.dotsrc.org/fedora/5/i386/os/images/diskboot.img Make sure that the USB device is unmounted: # sudo umount /dev/sda1 Copy the img to the usb key device: # dd if=diskboot.img of=/dev/sda Reboot and then select a network based install by typing: linux askmethod
The sudo command allows users to do tasks on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux system as another user. sudo is different from the su command and is more flexible and more secure. One significant advantage is that it can log usage. By default the program saves log data in the file /var/log/secure. The sudo program […]