Hi Michael, On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 11:48:38PM -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > perhaps this has more to do with sudo than with xfce. for example, > with "apt-get" as an sudo capability, i can run
> $ sudo apt-get upgrade > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > which is what i expect, but after a period of time (maybe something > like 10 minutes...i haven't timed it), i will be required to enter my > user (not root) password for sudo > $ sudo apt-get upgrade > password: > why do i have to do this even though i have already supplied my user > password to login? This is a feature. Anyway, by reading the sudo documentation you can remove this restriction. > anyway, i think this explains why xfce requires the password on > restart or shutdown. Well, sort of. But you can remove this with NOPASSWD in the right place but please read the sudo documentation carefully first. Simon. -- "Do they teach lawyers to apologise, because you suck at it?" -- Erin Brockovich. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
