Re: changing su (root password) to sudo (user password) -- just wondering ??



Hi Sven;

On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 22:59 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 10:52 -0400, William Case wrote:
Is there a relatively simple way to change admin/system programs called
by gnome launchers so that they ask for / accept the users password and
the sudoers file and configuration instead of only the root password?

Hi,

You should be able to change this by running gksu-properties and
changing the authentication mode.


Unfortunately Fedora doesn't use gksu.

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