Hi Rodrique, I don't think that this is the best list for your question (a support list for your distro would probably be more appropriate), but I've tried to answer below anyway.
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 15:52 -0400, Rodrique Heron wrote: > I’m not sure if this is the right list for this, so please redirect me > to the correct list if that’s the case. > Basically I want to know how I can give users Admin rights over their > desktops so that they don’t have to know roots password to run > programs from”Sytem” menu. For example the system-config-display > requires root’s password: > > $ system-config-display > > You are attempting to run "system-config-display" which requires > administrative > > privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so. > > Password for root You can set up "sudo" [1] on your system (sudo is used by default in Ubuntu). This allows normal users to temporarily gain root privileges by typing in their own password, not the root password. It's a bad idea to give regular users administrative privileges, as it frequently leads to problems with security and people messing with important system files. Sudo allows you to restrict which commands people can run with administrative privileges, but you should still take care. Thanks, Phil [1] - http://www.gratisoft.us/sudo/ -- Phil Bull https://launchpad.net/people/philbull _______________________________________________ system-tools-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/system-tools-list
