Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password

2010-02-04 Thread Freeman
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 09:48:22AM +, josé Santos wrote: > > I'm not a big fan of sudo, but if this can easy my life when working on my > laptop, than its definitely worth to learn. Freeman, would you be so king to > email me a copy of your suduoers file, so I can use it as an example? > I

RE: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password

2010-02-04 Thread James Wu
You may also want to look at gksudo, which is a gtk frontend for sudo. James -Original Message- From: José Santos [mailto:jsm...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of josé Santos Sent: February 4, 2010 4:48 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging

Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password

2010-02-04 Thread josé Santos
On Thu, Feb 04, 2010 at 02:04:11AM +, Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:55:34PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Freeman writes: > > > There have been occasional mentions of sudo here, as if it were no big > > > deal. > > > In my original learning, it is a big deal. That is, su, not s

Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password

2010-02-03 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 11:54:43PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <20100204004432.ga2...@europa.office>, Freeman wrote: > > > >There have been occasional mentions of sudo here, as if it were no big deal. > >In my original learning, it is a big deal. That is, su, not sudo, is "the > >Deb

Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password

2010-02-03 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20100204004432.ga2...@europa.office>, Freeman wrote: >On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:40:00PM +, josé Santos wrote: >> Is there a way for stopping Gnome's CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor from >> constantly nagging for the root password when I want to change my cpu's >> frequency? Google wasn't muc

Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password

2010-02-03 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 06:55:34PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Freeman writes: > > There have been occasional mentions of sudo here, as if it were no big > > deal. > > In my original learning, it is a big deal. That is, su, not sudo, is "the > > Debian way,"... > > That's news to me. > -- > Jo

Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password

2010-02-03 Thread John Hasler
Freeman writes: > There have been occasional mentions of sudo here, as if it were no big deal. > In my original learning, it is a big deal. That is, su, not sudo, is "the > Debian way,"... That's news to me. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: gnome CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor nagging for password

2010-02-03 Thread Freeman
On Wed, Feb 03, 2010 at 04:40:00PM +, josé Santos wrote: > Hi! > > Is there a way for stopping Gnome's CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor from > constantly nagging for the root password when I want to change my cpu's > frequency? Google wasn't much help, nor the CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor > 2