How do I get into Admin mode in Control Center?

[trygvebw]

Use "sudo -s" or "sudo -i" instead of "su".

On 4/24/05, Peter Barnes <pjb at operamail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Frederik Dannemare [mailto:frederik at dannemare.net]
> > Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 5:58 AM
> > To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> > Subject: Re: How do I get into Admin mode in Control
> Center?
> >
> > On Thursday 21 April 2005 22:01, Peter Barnes wrote:
> > > When I go to Control Centre > Internet & Network >
> Samba,
> > > everything is greyed out. So I guess I need the
> > > Administrator Mode. But when I click on the Admin
> button
> > > and enter my password it throws me back to the Internet
> &
> > > Network menu. Opening Samba again from this still gives
> a
> > > greyed out window. How do I get access to these
> settings
> > > through the Control Center?
> > > Thanks,
> >
> > <https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=8681>
> >
> > As a workaround, 'sudo kcontrol' should work.
> >
> > B/R,
> > --
> > Frederik Dannemare | http://sentinel.dk |
> http://linuxworlddomination.dk
> 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lewis Futrell" <lfutrell at intrex.net>
> To: kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: RE: How do I get into Admin mode in Control
> Center?
> Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:14:58 -0400
> 
> > As per this review
> >
> (http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/04/19/200205.shtml?tid=152&tid=2),
> I followed
> > it's instructions with visudo and the admin button works
> like a champ now.
> >
> > Lewis Futrell
> > Intrex Computers, Greensboro
> 
> But I can't carry out the instructions ("...open a terminal
> window, log in via su, enter visudo...") because if I use
> su it wants a password - and the only password I have set
> is my user password and it won't accept that ("su:
> Authentication failure"). And using sudo instead of su
> doesn't get me in either. Catch 22!
> 
> Peter
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