Default account not sudo

[1cupoverflow]

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Summary

On a fresh installation of Solus 4.8 Opportunity from a live USB the user account created during installation does not remain root and there is no option to create a seperate root account during the installation process.

User is initially in the sudoers group after installation but after updating the system privileges are removed and adding the user back to the group or adding a new account becomes impossible

Steps to reproduce

Install Solus 4.8 Opportunity onto unformatted drive with erase option from live usb

Create user account during installation process

Reboot system

Update software from Discover or eopkg

Sudo privileges are revoked

Expected result

I expected the user account created during installation to remain in the sudoers group since there was no option to create another account with root privileges during the setup process

Actual result

When the new Solus installation was upgraded the only user on the system was removed from the sudoers group

Environment

• Is system up to date?

Repo

Polaris (stable)

Desktop Environment

Xfce

System details

Dell XPS 8930

Other comments

Solus recently switched to the wheel group from sudo for the default account according to feedback from the live Solus Support chat. With an older installer this could cause a bug where the only account on the system has sudo privileges revoked during a software upgrade. Leading to a soft-lock with no way to exercise administrative privileges on a new Solus installation.

[androidnisse]

If you reboot after the updates, the user will be back in the right groups. :)

[1cupoverflow]

If you reboot after the updates, the user will be back in the right groups. :)

This solved my issue but there should be a process to ensure that the user remains in the sudoers group without rebooting the system. Thanks.

[TraceyC77]

Given that this is a one time transition that has a very simple workaround (rebooting, which you should do after updates), it would not be worth the engineering time to try to do this without a reboot.

The 4.9 release ISOs will not have this problem. The user will be added to the wheel group, no transition will be needed.

[TraceyC77]

I saw some activity, I think @joebonrichie is working on this.

[TraceyC77]

@1cupoverflow , did rebooting resolve the issue? Another user said rebooting didn't fix this on their system.