Thanks all for your helpful suggestions - the admin user is clearly the key to the whole thing and I've managed what I wanted to do.
Regards Stephen On 4 Apr 2012, at 21:15, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: > > > > > On 4 Apr 2012, at 08:46 PM, John Patrick <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So if you use the admin account to add your regular use to the sudoers >> file then log back in as the regular user, it should all then work. > > > You need to use the visudo command to edit the sudoers file. > This will perform a sanity check on your edit to make sure you're not making > any mistakes, sudo is pretty well documented, you should start with the sudo > man page to get yourself familiar. > > > Sevan / Venture37 Heard the one about three stockbrokers marooned on a desert island? When they were rescued, they were all billionaires from trading their hats. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
