GNOME panel and sudo

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On ma, 2005-07-18 at 10:49 +0200, Julien Olivier wrote:
> Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 10:05 +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker a écrit :
> > On ma, 2005-07-18 at 09:13 +0200, Julien Olivier wrote:
> > > > What do you think ?
> > > 
> > > If you're running as root (which you aren't in gdm), this should work:
> > > su USER -c "sudo -l"
> > 
> > That still needs the users password...
> 
> No, it doesn't. "su USER" won't ask the user's password if you are root,
> and neither will "sudo -l". At least, it works for me.

Running sudo -l as root will indeed not require a password, but running
sudo -l as someone else (which su does for you) does require a password.
That it works for you may be because your sudo password was still
cached.

ps: no need to CC me, I'm subscribed to the list.
-- 
Dennis K.
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