>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kim Goldenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -snip- > Of course this problem goes away when I use su rather than sudo, but > that means I have to give the root password to everyone who needs to > install their software, and I prefer not to do that. I guess I got to > used to Ubuntu's method of not even setting a root password; you get to > do sudo if you are in the right administrative group, and use your own > password, not root's.
You can do that on SLES just as easily. sudo is pretty much the same everywhere. I'm not currently aware of a way to do that via YaST, but that doesn't mean there isn't a way. I would just use visudo to edit the /etc/sudoers file and set that up manually. It should only be a one-liner. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
