[COLUG] Ubuntu gksudo?

[Chris Clonch]

On Thursday 20 September 2007 9:20:15 Duane wrote:
> 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)
>

I think the simplest solution is to add "rootpw" to the Defaults line 
in /etc/sudoers.  That will make sudo use the sudo (and likewise gksudo) use 
su as the backend auth instead of typical sudo.  In my ubuntu installs my 
default line looks like:

Defaults        !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn,rootpw

-Chris