using sudo
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Nov 30 18:44:41 UTC 2006
David Berg wrote:
> I'm in the process of switching from ubuntu to Fedora and am so far
> impressed. The first thing I want to change is how administration is
> handled. I like ubuntu's decision to remove the root password and only
> allow root access through sudo.
>
> So I gave myself full sudo access, disabled root logins, and eliminated
> the root password. Works great on the command line.
>
> The problem is this: How can I get the gui's to switch from wanting to
> use an su interface (and asking for a non-existant root password) to
> using sudo?
kde and kdesu can be configured to use sudo, just put this in
/usr/share/config/kdesurc:
[super-user-command]
super-user-command=sudo
-- Rex
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