I agree - wasn't asking for it to do that, I wondered why. I would just as soon require a password to make changes, in case it wasn't me - if my computer was public.<br><br><p><DEFANGED_div><DEFANGED_span class="gmail_quote">On 7/22/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Michael Mol</b> <<a href="mailto:mikemol@gmail.com">mikemol@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</DEFANGED_span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" DEFANGED_style="margin-top: 0; margin-right: 0; margin-bottom: 0; margin-left: 0; margin-left: 0.80ex; border-left-color: #cccccc; border-left-width: 1px; border-left-style: solid; padding-left: 1ex">
I hate to go offtopic, but why do people not want sudo to ask for a<br>password? Sure there's convenience, but it makes it easy for anyone<br>with a minute's access to your system to completely compromise it with<br>an adduser action and a brief foray into /etc/sudoers.
<br><br>On 7/22/06, Godwin <<a href="mailto:geektoyz@gmail.com">geektoyz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> On Ubuntu 5.04 (sudo-1.6.8p9-2ubuntu2.3):<br>><br>> # User privilege specification<br>> root ALL=(ALL) ALL
<br>> yourid ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL<br>><br>><br>> On Fedora 2 (sudo-1.6.7p5-26):<br>> # User privilege specification<br>> root ALL=(ALL) ALL<br>> yourid ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL<br>><br>><br>>
<br>> On 7/22/06, Bill Creswell <<a href="mailto:billcreswell@gmail.com">billcreswell@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > I can't seem to run synaptic from the menu, because it asks for a password.<br>> > I type sudo synaptic
<br>> > ( my sudoers file was just as Godwin said<br>> ><br>> > # User privilege specification<br>> > root ALL=(ALL) ALL<br>> > youruseridhere ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL)<br>> ><br>> >
<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > On 7/20/06, Benjamin Eavey <<a href="mailto:ben@eavey.com">ben@eavey.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > > Supports command-line apt-get, so I have to really learn that - No way I
<br>> > > > am using "Click n Run".<br>> > ><br>> > > You can install Synaptic, if you'd like to ease into the Debian way of<br>> > > doing things. It's a nice, easy-to-use GUI for Debian-based OSs. Just
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