Disable sudo

John dingo at coco2.arach.net.au
Mon Nov 8 11:37:17 UTC 2004


Christoph Georgi 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


Why would you want to disable sudo?

Why not leave some account, maybe beserker, as admin and create 
meremortal for mere mortal tasks?





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