Updates done by everyone

jim tate mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net
Sat Dec 9 14:45:20 UTC 2006


Roger Grosswiler wrote:
> i just asked myself, why a normal user shouldn't be able to run pup by
> itself without root permission.
>
> I think, this could be an issue to configure in the future.
>
> Meanwhile, i entered a group as sudoers. In the shell, everybody on this
> machine is now able to run pup. 
>
> I changed pup.desktop in /usr/share/applications 
>
> to Exec = sudo /usr/bin/pup
>
> ..it seems, gnome does not like this kind of entry ;) because i couldnt
> then launch it from gnome no longer.
>
> does anybody know, how i could handle this without a  shellscript in
> between?
>
> Thanks,
> Roger
>
>   
So you want Linux to have a security blanket like $Windows , so it will 
make your life easier.
BOY!! some of these ex $Windows users.

Jim




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