How does sudo work these days in F10 ?

Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com
Fri Jan 30 21:08:27 UTC 2009


On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 15:54 -0500, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> Frank Cox wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 13:12:24 -0700
> > Linuxguy123 wrote:
> > 
> >> How does sudo work these days in F10 ?
> > 
> > Pretty much the same as it always has.
> > 
> >   Why isn't this asking me for the root password ?
> > 
> > Because it's asking for your user password.  That's what sudo does.  If you
> > want to use the root password, use "su -c command" instead of sudo.
> 
> Or use rootpw in /etc/sudoers

That is what I needed.  I was using sudo in a spawned python process and
that worked. Thanks.





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