How to change admin user for GUI?

[Wes James]

Hi,

On Tue, Nov 6, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have installed ubuntu-12.4 for a friend. Since he is not a computer guy
> and
> I will need to do the administration on this computer, the first admin
> account
> I created was an account for me. Then I created a second admin account for
> him. We can both use sudo to do the administration on command line.
>
> Since he is not familiar with the command line, he is doing everything with
> the GUI. But when he does anything that needs root permissions (e.g. update
> the system), the GUI asks for _my_ password.
>
> How can I change this setting so that _his_ PW is asked instead?
>
>
1. Click Application Menu
2. Click Users and Groups
3. Click Manager Groups
4. Scroll down to sudo then click on it and then click Properties
5. Put a check on desired user to add to sudo group, then click on OK

Then when any app does admin stuff and pops up the Authenticate window then
you will get a drop-down list of folks in the sudo group.  I found this out
by looking in /etc/sudoers and it mentioned users in the sudo group would
have sudo privs.  So I created a second user and then added them to the
sudo group.  I picked an app to install and it popped up the Authenticate
window with not just asking for the password but also a drop-down list of
the users in the sudo group.

wes
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