On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 04:27:05PM -0500, A. Khattri wrote: > Sounds like you should try sudo. The first time you use sudo, it will > prompt for a password but then the session stays in effect for 30 mins > (you can configure that) so subsequent sudo's will not prompt for a > password unless your session has "expired". If you run sudo every few > minutes you wont be prompted for a password again for the rest of the day. > >
or, just put the following in /etc/sudoers USERNAME ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL where USERNAME is the user you want to give sudo powers to, or the group name preceded by % That way you won't be prompted for password at all for sudo. Best, W -- ---------------------------------------------------------------- * Address: 45 Spelman Hall, Princeton University 08544 * * Phone: x68958 AIM: AngularJerk * * E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: sep.dynalias.net * ---------------------------------------------------------------- "`I think you ought to know that I'm feeling very depressed.'" "`Life, don't talk to me about life.'" "`Here I am, brain the size of a planet and they ask me to take you down to the bridge. Call that "job satisfaction"? 'Cos I don't.'" "`I've got this terrible pain in all the diodes down my left side.'" - Guess who. Sortir en Pantoufles: up 13:36 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
