Disable sudo

[David M. Carney]

On Mon, 08 Nov 2004 14:49:45 +1300, Christoph Georgi
<christoph.georgi at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Although I can disable my default user to be able to sudo by commenting
> the line out in the sudoers. However, if I do so, I cannot open the
> synaptic pagacke manager anymore (using the Gnome menu): it doesn't
> accept my user password and my root password! The only possibility left
> is to log in as root in the terminal and then start synaptic via the
> terminal.
> 
> Is there any workaround for this problem?
> 
> Christoph
> 
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Find Synaptic in your menu, then right-click on it. Select properties.
Change the "Command:" line to read (without the quotes) "gksu
/usr/sbin/synaptic".

Now it will ask for and expect your root password.

David

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