Bug#382670: debian-installer: Sudo not properly configured
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Joey Hess wrote:
> Joseph Smidt wrote:
>> I choose to go the sudo route. Everything works fine on the command
>> line, i.e. I can't login as root and sudo works with the password I gave
>> it. But none of the gui admin applications work without root.
>> Example, I try to use synaptic my sudo password doesn't work. When I
>> tried to change the time the sudo password didn't work. Etc..
>
> Stratus, do you know if there's some gnome tool that let's the user run
> programs like these as root using sudo? Does tasksel omit installing it?
>
Maybe gksu ? Here's what I have in my
/usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop (which is a standard file, ie,
not changed by me) :
Exec=gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic
This way when I click on GNOME's menu shortcut to run Synaptic
(GNOME's frontend to APT), gksu is show and ask me for my root password
before launching Synaptic as root.
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André Luís Lopes
andrelop@debian.org
http://people.debian.org/~andrelop
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