Stephen Allen wrote:
> Just to follow-up to my previous email, Bob's suggestion didn't work
> either. That stanza was already entered.
Are you running Synaptic through sudo? Or is it asking you for the
password itself? I never run Synaptic. But I use sudo a lot.
What is the output of sudo -l?
$ sudo -l
Matching Defaults entries for rwp on this host:
env_reset,
secure_path=/usr/local/sbin\:/usr/local/bin\:/usr/sbin\:/usr/bin\:/sbin\:/bin,
env_keep+=HOME, env_keep+=MAIL, !lecture, !fqdn
User rwp may run the following commands on this host:
(ALL) ALL
What output do you get when you run sudo id?
$ sudo id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)
Bob
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