>>> On Mon, Feb 4, 2008 at 12:27 PM, in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Kim Goldenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
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>     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

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