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#1
Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 with ROX DE
Posts: 191
Rep:
How Do I Add Myself To The Sudoers Group?
I realise this has been asked before. But please just tell me
#2
Member
Registered: Apr 2011
Location: Jakarta, Indonesia
Distribution: Fedora, CentOS
Posts: 113
Rep:
--wheel group.wheel then edit /etc/sudoers with command visudo and uncomment this line :%wheel ALL=(ALL) ALL
#3
LQ 5k Club
Registered: Sep 2009
Distribution: Arch x86_64
Posts: 6,443
I think that the OP might not know what he really wants.
#4
Member
Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 with ROX DE
Posts: 191
Original Poster
Rep:
Is it possible to change the user from myself to root without having to log out?
#5
Senior Member
Registered: Aug 2006
Location: C:\MSDOS\
Distribution: Scientific Linux 6
Posts: 1,217
Yes.
Code:
:su - root
password: xxxx
#whoami
root
#
#6
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Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 with ROX DE
Posts: 191
Original Poster
Rep:
What's Red Hat/Fedora's equivalent of gksu?
#7
Guru
Registered: Dec 2009
Location: Hanover, Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 7,544
gksu is part of the Gnome DE. It is not dependent of distribution. If you use Gnome it is always gksu, for KDE it is kdesu.
#8
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Registered: Feb 2006
Location: Leicester
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10 with ROX DE
Posts: 191
Original Poster
Rep:
Ah! Thanks
I installed the KDE spin. No wonder gksu wasn't working
#9
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Registered: Sep 2009
Distribution: Arch x86_64
Posts: 6,443
Quote:
Originally Posted by
Mark7
Ah! Thanks
I installed the KDE spin. No wonder gksu wasn't working
Use "kdesu" in KDE.
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