Raquel wrote:
On Sun, 3 May 2009 10:18:49 -0400
"Douglas A. Tutty" <dtu...@vianet.ca> wrote:
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 07:29:07AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Bret Busby wrote:
Before I try it, please advise whether, in removing the sudo
facility for users, the package management (both
adding/removing packages, and, downloading and installing
updates, and using synaptic) will work by entering only the
root password.
The package management software just needs root privileges. It
doesn't care how it got them.
Nobody is suggesting anything exotic here. Sudo is intended to be
configured by the system administrator. That's you.
However, does the package management software (as aptitude does)
store user preferences in the home directory? If, for example, you
always run aptitude as yourself then give it the root password when
prompted, it stores your preferences in your home directory. If
you later run aptitude as root, those prefernces won't be active.
Also, vis-versa.
Doug.
I don't think that aptitude will run as $user, Douglas. It always
runs as root. At least, that's what it's always told me when I've
mistakenly tried to run it as $user.
It runs as user (in GUI mode), but it won't attempt to make changes to
the system until you authenticate as root (become root).
In command-line, I guess you must be root. But you can use sudo -c
"exec aptitude", I think, or something similar, if you are weird enough.
Mark Allums
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