* Richard <richard.vd.veen@gmail.com> [2006-06-16 14:56]: > On 16/06/06, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 15:41:11 +0800, Richard wrote: > > > On 15/06/06, Joseph Smidt <jsmidt@byu.edu> 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. Joseph Smidt > > > > > > I think you should login as root and run the commands: > > > > > > usermod -G $USER $GROUPS,adm > > > > A shorter option (sorry couldn't help myself): > > # usermod -a adm $USER > > Yes you are right Or even simpler: # addgroup $USER $GROUP > > > visudo > > > > > > # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges > > > %adm ALL=(ALL) ALL > > > > Rather then using the group that exists to allow users to read log > > files[1] it might be better to use the root group or create a > > special group for this purpose. > > Right again :-) > > %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL > > should do ... as they have in ubuntu What about group `wheel' ? > > > And then delete the password from root from your /etc/passwd and > > > /etc/shadow files =second field > > > > I'd suggest using the -l argument to passwd instead of editing > > /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow manually. If you still want to do it > > manually you should probably use vipw to do it. > > right again :-) vipw. Interesting. - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <flx@obfusk.net> http://obfusk.net ~ "Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature." ~ -- R. Kulawiec ~ vim: set ft=mail tw=70 sw=2 sts=2 et:
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