non-root up2date question

[jim lawrence]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:38:27 +0000, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> Don Russell wrote:
> >
> >
> > Richard E Miles wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 12:57:39 -0500
> >> Bill Case <billlinux at rogers.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> How do you set up up2date so that you can update as a user without
> >>> continually having to use the root password?
> >>>
> >>> I think I remember reading a few months ago how to do it; but now I
> >>> can't find the instructions.
> >
> >
> > Maybe by scheduling a yum -y update command on root?
> >
> > I don't know if that's a good idea.... but I guess it would work
> 
> Indeed it would. Check out /etc/cron.daily/yum.cron
> 
> This is enabled using:
> 
> # chkconfig yum on
> # service yum start
> 
> Paul.
> 
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You could also make yourself a sudo user   than just have to type your password.

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