Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4121 mails)

[Kenneth Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2007-10-17 at 17:24 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 10:49:19AM -0400, Kenneth Schneider wrote:
> > I have performed fresh installs on my laptop and my desktop, preserving
> > home, and have the following happening.
> > 
> > On my laptop when instructing the updater to install the update it goes
> > and does this without asking for the root password but on the desktop I
> > am required to provide the password. Is there a setting somewhere for
> > this I have accidentally set on the laptop? I'm sure others in the
> > corporate world wouldn't want this to happen without being able to
> > restore the defaults.
> 
> This will happen if you configured "sudo" for your desktop user to just
> go to root. opensuse updater KDE uses kdesu , which in turn uses sudo.
> 
> Ciao, Marcus

Just shows to go you how short ones memory can get. That was it. Thanks
Marcus.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998

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