On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:43:43 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote: >When I installed Debian I selected to not allow root login thinking >that would enable sudo and disable root. But when I logged into gnome >it kept asking for the root password to do admin things, so I set a >root password and it works. >However, I would like to disable root and have it so my sudo password >works for all the gnome admin things, like opening synaptic. How do I >do that? Thanks.
You have to edit the .desktop file for synaptic (/usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop). change the line Exec=gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic to Exec=gksudo -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic and you should be set. Not though that any upgrade to synaptic is likely to change it back. /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://therning.org/magnus Software is not manufactured, it is something you write and publish. Keep Europe free from software patents, we do not want censorship by patent law on written works. Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity. -- David Gelernter
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