How to run program who required sudo privilege using gnome interface
Hi,
I've installed gnome instead of KDE after the operation all is fine except that all program that require sudo privileges can't be launched from menu of gnome.
example synaptic from System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manager can't be launched I receive the very clear message :
The underlying authorization mechanism (sudo) does not allow you to run this program. Contact the system administrator.
This things was running good under KDE, what can I do to enable running program like these from gnome menu ?
thanks for help
Richard
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edit /etc/sudoers as root,
edit /etc/sudoers as root, add this line:
your_user_name localhost=(ALL) ALL
(where your_user_name is the actual name of your account)
IMPORTANT: start Kuser and remove your account from "Sudo" group, otherwise you will not need to enter the password to execute sudo and your computer would be more vulnerable.
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Check out Mepis wiki: www.mepis.org/docs
Add KDESU
I've run into the same problem with that and also with a gui for Dansguardian I installed. What I did is add kdesu to the beginning of the command in the shortcut (example: kdesu synaptic) launches synaptic and uses the kdesu command to request the root password.
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