-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:56:13PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 06:49 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:42:48PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: >>>> I guess you want to change the behaviour of gksu? Do, >>>> >>>> gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gksu/sudo-mode true >>>> >>>> Or the same action with gconf-editor. >>> This has never worked too well for me, just a note. Last time I tried >>> it a lot of applications didn't want to work. Do it at your own risk. >> You do need to configure sudo first of course. I have been running with >> gksu in sudo mode for quite a long time, and haven't had any problems. > > I have sudo configured (I always use it in preference to su), but like > I said last time I tried to use only sudo it didn't want to work. Some > of the programs just wouldn't start, and complained that I need to be > root to use them. > >
In that case, you can do a sudo -i and gain a root prompt. Personally I only have sudo set up to do some things, and getting a root prompt is definitely not one of them. But then again, I didn't set up sudoers to do ALL:ALL like some people do. (uh, ubuntu comes to mind) Cris Lale's site: http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/How_to_configure_Sudo_to_run_programs_as_a_different_user explains well how to do a good setup. He already mentioned that link in this thread, but since it's such a good tutorial, I mention it again. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGJMIQiXBCVWpc5J4RAom8AKCLuRBqxoCeYEkPOstHwQ/gbXuZtgCfZ4OS VcK7bbspI/jBcHPfRqpVGpc= =pfEo -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
