Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/11/2010 11:25 PM, Vitorio Okio wrote:
> On Sat, 09 Jan 2010 10:04:52 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote:
>
> > Listmates,
> >
> >      Since I have been using gnome a bit on 11.0, I have poked around 
> but I
> >      haven't
> > been able to find a way to allow myself, as a sudo user, to execute apps
> > in gnome that require root authorization without having to enter the
> > root password each time.
> >
> >      In both kde3 and kde4, if you are you are set up to use sudo, then
> >      simply
> > entering the following in an xterm or in the run command dialog in kde
> > thereafter allows you to run all apps requiring root authorization
> > without being prompted for a password:
> >
> > (all on one line)
> >
> > kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key
> > super-user-command sudo
> >
> >      Is there an equivalent work-around for gnome 2.2 in 11.0??
>
> you need to add yourself to sudoers file. look into man pages for sudo 
> and sudoers.
>
> if you want to find it quick than google for it:
>
> "http://www.google.com/webhp?
> hl=en#hl=en&source=hp&fkt=261487&fsdt=270536&q=how+to+add+a+user+to
> +sudoers+file&aq=1&aql=&aqi=g3&oq=how+to+add+a+user+to
> +sudo&fp=e8d6ef47431c6a4a"

Vitorio,

        Thank you, but I do not think we are communicating... I am a sudo user 
and I
have configured sudoers with visudo:

01:50 alchemy:~> sudo noc /etc/sudoers
Defaults always_set_home
Defaults env_reset
Defaults env_keep = "LANG LC_ADDRESS LC_CTYPE LC_COLLATE LC_IDENTIFICATION
LC_MEASUREMENT LC_MESSAGES LC_MONETARY LC_NAME LC_NUMERIC LC_PAPER LC_TELEPHONE
LC_TIME LC_ALL LANGUAGE LINGUAS XDG_SESSION_COOKIE"
Defaults targetpw   # ask for the password of the target user i.e. root
ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL   # WARNING! Only use this together with 'Defaults targetpw'!
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
%wheel  ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

01:50 alchemy:~> grep wheel /etc/group
wheel:x:10:david
           ^^^^^
that's me :p

        What I need is some way to tell gnome to recognize that I have su/sudo
privileges when I click on yast, for example, and then NOT prompt me for a
password. As mentioned above this is accomplished with kwriteconfig in kde/kde4.

        What I need to know is -- "How do you do the same thing in gnome?"

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