Am Aussie too live in QLD J
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[mailto:kubuntu-users-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of David
Sent: Sunday, 6 July 2008 11:53 AM
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Subject: Re: sudo - adept manager
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Bewdy <aussie for
great>, thanks for that - whew not user error!!
David
On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Cary Bielenberg <cary@bielenberg.id.au> wrote:
David,
******** There is a
problem with Kubuntu at present where the password required is the root
password not your elevated password. If you do a sudo passwd root & setup
the root password (not recommended) it will use the real root's password. One
problem at the moment if you are using intrepid is adept will crash soon after
you put in the password anyway L
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On Behalf Of David
Sent: Sunday, 6 July 2008 11:35 AM
To: Kubuntu Help and User
Discussions
Subject: Re: sudo - adept manager
(?)
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I get the following dialog box when I run Adept
Manager:
"You will not be able to change your system settings in any way (install,
remove or upgrade software), because this application needs special
administrator (root) privileges. Please run it as root or through kdesu or sudo
programs to be able to perform these actions"
Confused.
On Sun,
Jul 6, 2008 at 11:29 AM, Wulfy <wulfmann@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
David
wrote:
> Sorry if this seems obvious but being new to the wonderful world of
> Ubuntu could you let me know the correct way to run Adept Manger under
> "root". *I understand the command sudo does that under
Terminal but I
> don't understand the form of the command.
>
> My objective is to fetch updates by using Adept Manager but I need to
> run it as "root". *I am using Ubuntu 8.04 - Hardy Heron.
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> I have Admin rights as a user on the system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
> <smart tag line left off as I couldn't find anything to say!>
Doesn't
clicking on the menu item for Adept bring up the password
dialogue? *There should be no need under normal circumstances to run a
graphical program from the terminal and those that need to be run as
root should automatically do so.
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