On 05/02/2014 08:42 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Emmett Culley wrote:
>
>> On 04/30/2014 10:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 04/30/2014 08:25 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
Any ideas how to get apps to require the root password instead of my
user password?
>>>
>>> Take yourself out of wheel.
>> I was
Emmett Culley wrote:
> On 04/30/2014 10:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>> On 04/30/2014 08:25 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
>>> Any ideas how to get apps to require the root password instead of my
>>> user password?
>>
>> Take yourself out of wheel.
> I was in the users group, but not in the wheel group.
>
>
On 04/30/2014 10:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 04/30/2014 08:25 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
>> Any ideas how to get apps to require the root password instead of my user
>> password?
>
> Take yourself out of wheel.
I was in the users group, but not in the wheel group.
Also, I have all sudoers disabled
On 04/30/2014 08:25 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
Any ideas how to get apps to require the root password instead of my user
password?
Take yourself out of wheel.
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On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 08:25 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
> It is interesting that my other workstation works differently. That
> is, yumex doesn't prompt for the root password until it is about to do
> something that requires root permissison. But it is asking for the
> root password, not my user p
I've noticed recently that when I run yumex, or most any other app that needs
root permission, from the launcher menu, I am prompted for my user password,
instead of the root password. So I assume sudo is being used instead of su.
The "run backend with sudo" is not checked in yumex preferences.
