On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 04:37:16PM +0900, Han Soo Chang wrote: > Thanks for your response. > > Yes, I installed sudo, and edited the confiugration file using visudo. > That was easy. > And I have been using sudo in all the cases where I needed to be root. > I believed that it gives me better security. > > However, in this particular case of installing flashplugin-nonfree, > sudo apt-get failed, but su apt-get succeeded. > > What I'm trying to say is that this could be interpreted as a subtle bug, > because it confuses a user like me. > I don't think it's a bug... If you add your user to the sudo group and use the line:
yourusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL in /etc/sudoers, everything should work and you'll get no password prompt. Of course, replace "youusername" with your actual username. :) -- ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ ♫ ❤ Indulekha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120502113032.GA5362@radhesyama