updates without password?
Valent Turkovic
valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Sat Feb 23 07:45:43 UTC 2008
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Valent Turkovic
<valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/2/22 Mikkel L. Ellertson <mikkel at infinity-ltd.com>:
>
> > Valent Turkovic wrote:
> > > How can I configure pup so that it doesn't ask for root password every
> > > time I need to do an update?
> > >
> > One way would be to edit /etc/pam.d/pup and change it to something like:
> >
> > #%PAM-1.0
> > auth include config-util
> > auth sufficient pam_console.so
> > account include config-util
> > session include config-util
> >
> > I have not tested it, but it should let the "console owner" run pup
> > without a password. If it does not work, you can try exchanging the
> > two auth statements, but this is more of a security risk. (It
> > probably does not matter for a home system.)
>
> I wouldn't do this if it wasn't my personal home system...
>
> I did this and I'm waiting for updates to let you know if it works :)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
> Valent.
I still get promted for root password :(
Is there some other way?
Cheers,
Valent.
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