On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:24 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:49:19AM -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote: > > I have performed fresh installs on my laptop and my desktop, preserving > > home, and have the following happening. > > > > On my laptop when instructing the updater to install the update it goes > > and does this without asking for the root password but on the desktop I > > am required to provide the password. Is there a setting somewhere for > > this I have accidentally set on the laptop? I'm sure others in the > > corporate world wouldn't want this to happen without being able to > > restore the defaults. > > This will happen if you configured "sudo" for your desktop user to just > go to root. opensuse updater KDE uses kdesu , which in turn uses sudo. > > Ciao, Marcus
Just shows to go you how short ones memory can get. That was it. Thanks Marcus. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
