-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: > Joseph Smidt wrote: >> I choose to go the sudo route. Everything works fine on the command >> line, i.e. I can't login as root and sudo works with the password I gave >> it. But none of the gui admin applications work without root. >> Example, I try to use synaptic my sudo password doesn't work. When I >> tried to change the time the sudo password didn't work. Etc.. > > Stratus, do you know if there's some gnome tool that let's the user run > programs like these as root using sudo? Does tasksel omit installing it? >
Maybe gksu ? Here's what I have in my /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop (which is a standard file, ie, not changed by me) : Exec=gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic This way when I click on GNOME's menu shortcut to run Synaptic (GNOME's frontend to APT), gksu is show and ask me for my root password before launching Synaptic as root. - -- André Luís Lopes [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~andrelop Public GPG KeyID : 9D1B82F6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE4SIrW4/i9Z0bgvYRAtCUAJ9gh0DHjrn/wn1yPBMd0+JCQCMhngCcCaQj 9EBKXg0OOFZTNWj4mbYlvms= =CQLg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
