2 security questions involving sudo

jdhore · Retired Dev Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 106

1. I have sudo installed, is there an easy way to add my standard user account as a sudoer without using visudo or manually editing /etc/sudoers (it looks scary and i suck at vi) (i do have Gnome installed if that makes things easier)?

2. I have Gnome installed, and when i run an app that requires root permissions, it doesn't want to popup a box asking for my root password and the only way to run it as root is from the commandline by either su, then the app name or gksu appname. Is there any way to have me be able to launch it under my standard account, and have it popup a box asking for my root password?

joyo222 · n00b Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 44

i can't help you with the gnome stuff, but the first one is easy. just add this one line in /etc/sudoers to give yourself full sudo permissions:

BrummieJim · l33t Joined: 22 Jul 2005 Posts: 683

Is your user a member of the wheel group? You can find out by typing groups on the command line.

jdhore · Retired Dev Joined: 13 Apr 2007 Posts: 106

jmbsvicetto · Posted: Thu May 24, 2007 6:56 pm Post subject:

Hi.