admin authorization for management

Bill Marcum marcumbill at bellsouth.net
Wed Jul 22 14:37:21 UTC 2009


On 2009-07-19, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> If I run the update-manager or other graphics front-end for apt-get, 
> I'm prompted to enter my own password.  I'd like to have to enter the 
> root password instead.
>
Assuming that you have a root password, edit /etc/sudoers.  Read the sudoers
man page carefully first.






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