[COLUG] Ubuntu gksudo?

[Duane]

Kevin wrote:
> You need to edit /etc/sudoers but first set a root password with passwd.

and use gksu instead of gksudo (and remove yourself from the admin group
as someone else suggested)

> On 9/20/07, Drew <saphetiger at post891.org> 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.


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