administrator privileges for desktop 8.04

[Christopher Stamper]

I think that was a joke...

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On 4/6/09, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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