How do I get into Admin mode in Control Center?

[Peter Barnes]

> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Frederik Dannemare [mailto:frederik at dannemare.net] 
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:58 AM 
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
> Subject: Re: How do I get into Admin mode in Control 
Center? 
>  
> On Thursday 21 April 2005 22:01, Peter Barnes wrote: 
> > When I go to Control Centre > Internet & Network > 
Samba, 
> > everything is greyed out. So I guess I need the 
> > Administrator Mode. But when I click on the Admin 
button 
> > and enter my password it throws me back to the Internet 
& 
> > Network menu. Opening Samba again from this still gives 
a 
> > greyed out window. How do I get access to these 
settings 
> > through the Control Center? 
> > Thanks, 
>  
> <https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8681> 
>  
> As a workaround, 'sudo kcontrol' should work. 
>  
> B/R, 
> -- 
> Frederik Dannemare | http://sentinel.dk | 
http://linuxworlddomination.dk 
 
 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Lewis Futrell" <lfutrell at intrex.net> 
To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com 
Subject: RE: How do I get into Admin mode in Control 
Center? 
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:14:58 -0400 
 
> As per this review 
> 
(http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/04/19/200205.shtml?tid=152&tid=2), 
I followed 
> it's instructions with visudo and the admin button works 
like a champ now. 
>  
> Lewis Futrell 
> Intrex Computers, Greensboro 
 
But I can't carry out the instructions ("...open a terminal 
window, log in via su, enter visudo...") because if I use 
su it wants a password - and the only password I have set 
is my user password and it won't accept that ("su: 
Authentication failure"). And using sudo instead of su 
doesn't get me in either. Catch 22! 
 
Peter 
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