Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Sat, 2013-09-28 at 09:05 +0900, Joel Rees wrote:
In the meantime, synaptic and others essentially go through su or sudo
and pop up a dialog asking for your root or admin password.

Resp. those commands are gksu, gksudo, kdesu.


Thank you for solution to immediate problem.

A good night's sleep yielded "obvious" general solution - format the partition appropriately , i.e. FAT32 in *this* instance ;)

Hint to some 'purists' - Why have groups/users/etc when only one person has physical access, there is no possibility of network access (internet or other), and the machine in question (being designated experimentation) has no data of value on it? <chuckle>



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