Fedora Workstation 31 in Windows Domain no root oder su access.

Wotuom · 11-01-2019, 05:58 AM

Hi,

I just installed Fedora Workstation 31 on Hyper-V.
During the installtion root gets deactivated by Default.

I selected Enterprise Login (domain join) at the user creation. Which worked fine.

But based on the fact, that this domain user is the only user on the machine of which I know the credentials… this user should have administrative rights, I suppose ;-)
Unfortunately the (domain)user has not.
su, sudo, … won't work because the user is not in the sudoer list.
With this situation and still disabled root I'm lost.

Can anyone help?
(I suppose it would work to reinstall with an (unneccesary) local user instead of a Domain join, but it won't feel "right")

Greetings

Kai

uteck · 11-02-2019, 03:08 PM

When I was working with Linux systems with AD, the user I used to join the domain did not have admin rights. It only had permission to join the domain which is a smart way to do it.
Try logging in with a user with admin right ans see if they have sudo, then yes you need to make a local user that has sudo access.

Wotuom · 11-04-2019, 01:46 AM

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Originally Posted by uteck

When I was working with Linux systems with AD, the user I used to join the domain did not have admin rights. It only had permission to join the domain which is a smart way to do it.
Try logging in with a user with admin right ans see if they have sudo, then yes you need to make a local user that has sudo access.

I used a Domain Admin account because I anticipated that I wouldn't have sudo rights otherwise… unfortunate it didn't work and from my google search perspective this is a unsolved problem for several versions…. but if so... this kind of Installation makes no sense... which I can't believe ;-)

hendrickxm · 11-04-2019, 02:57 AM

On the latest fedora workstation releases, the user you create during installation gets sudo rights.

Wotuom · 11-04-2019, 05:03 AM

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Originally Posted by hendrickxm

On the latest fedora workstation releases, the user you create during installation gets sudo rights.

If the latest means later than this post, than I will gladly check it. But at getfedora.org is no newer Version.
I'm pretty sure that a local user you create during Installation will have sudo rights, but I'm also sure that if you use an existing domain user… the user has no sudo right.

hendrickxm · 11-05-2019, 06:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Wotuom

If the latest means later than this post, than I will gladly check it. But at getfedora.org is no newer Version.
I'm pretty sure that a local user you create during Installation will have sudo rights, but I'm also sure that if you use an existing domain user… the user has no sudo right.

At least since f30 so also f31, when you create a user during install, that user will have sudo rights.

vaniderstine · 01-18-2020, 05:37 PM

I have the same problem after installing Fedora 31 and joining it to a FreeIPA domain during setup.

I don't recall choosing to encrypt the disk, so should I be able to interrupt boot and fix this? Or will I need to unset password of the root account to to this?

Also, hendrckxm, I didn't create a user, I joined the machine to an existing domain (and I used a domain administrator account to do this).

One thing I haven't tried is to create a domain user named root.