On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:43:43 -0600, Joseph Smidt wrote:
>When I installed Debian I selected to not allow root login thinking
>that would enable sudo and disable root. But when I logged into gnome
>it kept asking for the root password to do admin things, so I set a
>root password and it works.
>However, I would like to disable root and have it so my sudo password
>works for all the gnome admin things, like opening synaptic. How do I
>do that? Thanks.
You have to edit the .desktop file for synaptic
(/usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop). change the line
Exec=gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic
to
Exec=gksudo -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic
and you should be set.
Not though that any upgrade to synaptic is likely to change it back.
/M
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