sudo - adept manager (?)

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 05 July 2008, David wrote:
>I get the following dialog box when I run Adept Manager:
>
>"You will not be able to change your system settings in any way (install,
>remove or upgrade software), because this application needs special
>administrator (root) privileges. Please run it as root or through kdesu or
>sudo programs to be able to perform these actions"
>
>Confused.

Have you established a root password?  ISTR I read that you had in a previous 
msg a few days ago.

I thought I was being cute when I did that, but things got so confused I had to 
reinstall after I had removed the root user and password in an attempt to fix 
it back to the ubuntu way.

If you have done that, then you might make it work when you do a "sudo adept" 
from a cli screen if you use the root password you setup, but the normal 
acceptance of your use password by sudo will not be valid anymore.

sudo application_name Just Works(TM) if you will let it.  And I suspect the 
easiest total fix once a root passsword has been setup, is to format & 
reinstall.  Save your data off someplace so you can copy it back after the 
reinstall.

-- 
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