Disable sudo

Christoph Georgi christoph.georgi at web.de
Mon Nov 8 20:48:55 UTC 2004


Sorry, I can't follow you. What is beserker and meremortal??

John wrote:
> 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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