-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 02:51:49PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote: > On 05/13/2018 09:26 AM, bw wrote: > > > > > >On Sun, 13 May 2018, Richard Owlett wrote: > > > >><snip> > >>The result I wish to achieve is to click on the icon for either GParted or > >>Synaptic *WITHOUT* being asked for a password (either root's or user's). > >> > >>I've found vague hints that adding a line to my local /etc/sudoers file > >>such as > >> richard ALL = /usr/sbin/gparted , /usr/sbin/synaptic > >>would accomplish my goal. > >>Is that correct? > >><snip> > > > >I think that might work if clicking each icon actually runs those > >commands from each .desktop file. > > I believe it does: > 1. if logged in as root, entering "/use/sbin/gparted" runs. > 2. if *NOT* logged in as root, entering "/usr/sbin/gparted" asks > for password.
Yes, perhaps that's what sudo is for then (you'd have to run "sudo /usr/sbin/gparted" instead: make it more convenient by some wrapper [1]). Of course the recommendation is still "don't do it", but the good thing is: it's just that, a recommendation. FWIW, I went through that phase and am back now to my "custom commands" asking for a password when doing something sudo-ish. It's a kind of "are you awake there, at the controls?" which I've come to appreciate. But to each her own and all that :-) Cheers [1] There are many solutions to that: I have a /home/tomas/bin which I add to my PATH where I put all those little scripts which are too small or too unstable to go to /usr/local/bin. If I need a sudo in there, I just code it in. In my default setting, I then get asked for a password. By relaxing sudoers (e.g. with NOPASSWD: or !authenticate) you can fine tune that to skip the authentication at a very fine-grained level (by command, by user or by host (on which the command is running)). - -- tomas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlr5Ny8ACgkQBcgs9XrR2karmQCbBqB+iZiKRFNv9yRfUciGd02D NgkAn0Y9TFBecQaBgIA4G/T8o/1sjtwH =NZbD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
