https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=339925#c2 --- Comment #2 from Andrew Jorgensen <ajorgensen@novell.com> 2007-11-08 10:38:47 MST --- Hi Mark, I think you're trying to solve a specific problem while I'm talking about a general problem. I will try to give my specific example but keep in mind that I'm not interested in the specific case but the general problem. In my sudoers file I commented out #Defaults targetpw #ALL ALL=(ALL) ALL Uncommented %wheel ALL=(ALL) SETENV: ALL And added myself to the wheel group. Now when I use sudo from the command line I am prompted for /my/ password rather than root's password. Unfortunately gnomesu doesn't appear to use sudo at all but just su. This means that even though I can run administrative commands by giving my own password I will still be prompted for the root password.
From a sysadmin perspective this my users still can't administer their own systems without the root password.
The best case would be if gnomesu used sudo instead of su so that whatever settings the administrator put in the sudoers file would be reflected in the behavior of gnomesu. Need any more info? -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.