administrator privileges for desktop 8.04

[Tom Poe]

Christopher Stamper wrote:
> I think that was a joke...
>
> -Sent from my iPhone
>
> On 4/6/09, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net> wrote:
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>> David Hughes wrote:
>>     
>>> you want to use sudo.  sudo prompts you for your own password, and
>>> logs your use for the sysadmin, which is the folks up at ubuntu.
>>>
>>> if you want to operate fully as root, use "sudo bash".
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Tom Poe <tompoe at fngi.net
>>> <mailto:tompoe at fngi.net>> wrote:
>>>
>>>     I want to run /usr/bin/updatedb on my newly installed Ubuntu 8.04.
>>>      How
>>>     do I do that?
>>>     Tom
>>>     tom at tom-desktop:~$ su
>>>     Password:
>>>     su: Authentication failure
>>>     tom at tom-desktop:~$ cd /usr/bin
>>>     tom at tom-desktop:/usr/bin$ updatedb
>>>     updatedb: can not open a temporary file for
>>>     `/var/lib/mlocate/mlocate.db'
>>>     tom at tom-desktop:/usr/bin$
>>>
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>> David:  Phone home?  Each time I sudo command?  Can you point me to
>> discussion about this?
>>
>> Does the same thing happen when I use Synaptic?
>> Tom
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Aahh, this is a rough crowd, I see, now.  :)
Tom