administrator privileges for desktop 8.04

[Tom Poe]

David Hughes wrote:
> you want to use sudo.  sudo prompts you for your own password, and 
> logs your use for the sysadmin, which is the folks up at ubuntu.
>
> if you want to operate fully as root, use "sudo bash".
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net 
> <mailto:tompoe at fngi.net>> wrote:
>
>     I want to run /usr/bin/updatedb on my newly installed Ubuntu 8.04.
>      How
>     do I do that?
>     Tom
>     tom at tom-desktop:~$ su
>     Password:
>     su: Authentication failure
>     tom at tom-desktop:~$ cd /usr/bin
>     tom at tom-desktop:/usr/bin$ updatedb
>     updatedb: can not open a temporary file for
>     `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'
>     tom at tom-desktop:/usr/bin$
>
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David:  Phone home?  Each time I sudo command?  Can you point me to 
discussion about this?

Does the same thing happen when I use Synaptic?
Tom