Bug 814769

Summary:	fips install: anaconda should add the new user to /etc/sudoers and/or group wheel
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Paul Wouters <pwouters>
Component:	firstboot	Assignee:	Martin Gracik <mgracik>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, bcl, dcantrell, dmach, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mgracik, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Paul Wouters 2012-04-20 15:36:24 UTC

Description of problem:
When installing F17 the user added during install does not appear in /etc/sudoers or the wheel group. As a result, the user cannot use sudo.

In fips mode, su and direct login as root are rejected, so the result is that one needs to boot into non-fips mode just to be able to login as root to edit the groups or sudoers file

Comment 1 Jesse Keating 2012-04-20 15:50:28 UTC

Was this kickstart or interactive install?  An interactive install doesn't do user creation in the installer, that's handled post-install by firstboot.

If it's kickstart, then anaconda does create the user.  A workaround for when you're in kickstart is using %post to modify sudoers.  The user kickstart directive has a --group option that lets you specify additional groups, such as wheel.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#user

Comment 2 Paul Wouters 2012-04-21 23:10:31 UTC

interactive install, so re-assigned to firstboot

Comment 3 Martin Gracik 2012-05-02 11:09:11 UTC

If you check the "add to administrators group" when creating the user, it will add the user to the wheel group.