[COLUG] Ubuntu gksudo?

Richard Holbert holbert.13 at osu.edu
Thu Sep 20 19:55:45 EDT 2007


Try taking yourself out of the admin group.

Rick

Drew wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I run ubuntu (various versions) on a couple of my boxes.  It alwys 
> bothered me that when doing things through gnome, that if I needed 
> root priviliages it would ask me for my password rather than the root 
> password.  Is there a way to change this?  I like the default 
> behaviour of Debian, and Fedora where it makes you enter the root 
> password.  That way getting my account does not get you root.
>
> On prior systems I had always left sudo disabled because the systems 
> didn't need it.
>
> Thanks;
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