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[Motasim Sakallah]

He probably followed a guide in the forums or the official howto, which 
dictates that in order for the GUI to run at startup without prompting for a 
password that the /etc/sudoers files must be edited to grant him the 
permission first. Otherwise it'll prompt for a password when booting up. I 
agree this is not safe nor practical (specifically for the point mentioned, 
which is that the firewall runs in the background regardless of the GUI or 
not), but my main concern right now is what errors he's getting when invoking 
sudo. If he didn't use "sudo visudo" (and edited it using gedit for example) 
chances are he messed the file up preventing him from getting access to root 
functions, and hence not being able to use sudo.

P.S. I'm sure you've seen it, but here's fs-security's official how-to on the 
topic:

http://www.fs-security.com/docs/faq.php#trayicon

Mo
On Sunday, April 15 2007 11:03 pm Daniel Stubbs wrote:
> I'm more concerned on why you want to do this, and have firestarter to
> run without having to use sudo.
>
> I would be concerned with security.
>
> Please note: Firestarter does run in the background automatically
> (unless un-installed,) when you run the command "sudo firestarter" that
> ONLY loads the daemon/gui to monitor. your firewall is active on bootup.
>
> So. in essence, running firestarter (GUI) on boot up doesnt do anything
> but take more memory. You are protected by the firewall, no worries my
> ubuntu brethren.
>
> On Sun, 2007-04-15 at 22:43 -0400, Motasim Sakallah wrote:
> > What is the exact error you're getting, and how did you edit the sudoers
> > file?
> >
> > Mo
> >
> > On Sunday, April 15 2007 3:07 pm Steve wrote:
> > > I was trying to get Firestarter to on boot up to load its self in as
> > > root and run in the background.Quick note I am brand new to Ubuntu and
> > > do not know much about it. I found instructions on how to do this but
> > > must have mistyped something in the /etc/sudoers file now I get an
> > > error anytime I try to do that requires root password. Can I fix this
> > > with out reloading software or if not is there a way to save all my
> > > settings and configurations. I have spent hours getting my laptop
> > > running the way I want it and now I mess something up.
> > >
> > > Here is my /etc/sudoers file:
> > > # /etc/sudoers
> > > #
> > > # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
> > > #
> > > # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
> > > # Host alias specification
> > >
> > > # User alias specification
> > >
> > > # Cmnd alias specification
> > >
> > > # Defaults
> > >
> > > Defaults    !lecture,tty_tickets,!fqdn
> > >
> > > # User privilege specification
> > > root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
> > >
> > > # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
> > > # %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL (Not sure where the # came from but think this
> > > is my problem)
> > > %steve ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/firestarter (I add this line)