sudo - adept manager (?)

[David]

Thanks, I have established that setting up a root password is way too
dangerous.  I have found that I can do an upgrade from a downloaded CD with
less risk.

Thanks to everyone for the help.

David

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 2:15 PM, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net>
wrote:

> 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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