John on S8

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 10:24:44AM +0800, John wrote:
> Some of the configuration tools -  eg Synaptic - invoke sudo to validate 
> the users.

That's because /etc/apt/sources.list can only be edited as root, for
obvious reasons.  The user created in the default Ubuntu install is in
sudoers.

> In other cases where there is no such configuration tool, there is no 
> GUI way to edit config files. If I open them in gedit, it's read-only 
> (and it took me a while to figure why it was behaving oddly).

Users wh owere poking around in /etc and got the right config file
probably got this advice from somewhere that would've already told them
that they need to be root.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
available by the Info system." -- debian/manpage.sgml.ex, dh_make template
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