Re: KDE using sudo instead of su

[Tim]

On Wed, 2014-04-30 at 08:25 -0700, Emmett Culley wrote:
> It is interesting that my other workstation works differently. That
> is, yumex doesn't prompt for the root password until it is about to do
> something that requires root permissison.  But it is asking for the
> root password, not my user password, as are all other apps that
> require root permissions.
>
> Any ideas how to get apps to require the root password instead of my
> user password?

You probably didn't set up that user with yourself in the "wheel" group,
which sets up the user for use with sudo, in a simple manner.  In
windows-parlance, an admin user.