KDE using sudo instead of su

Emmett Culley lst_manage at webengineer.com
Thu May 8 18:35:04 UTC 2014


On 05/02/2014 08:42 AM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Emmett Culley wrote:
> 
>> On 04/30/2014 10:27 AM, Joe Zeff wrote:
>>> On 04/30/2014 08:25 AM, Emmett Culley wrote:
>>>> Any ideas how to get apps to require the root password instead of my
>>>> user password?
>>>
>>> Take yourself out of wheel.
>> I was in the users group, but not in the wheel group.
>>
>> Also, I have all sudoers disabled except for root.
>>
>> Still, I get prompted for my users password.  Something to do with polkit?
> 
> Yes polkit.  The curious thing is that polkit default configuration is
> supposed to work as you describe:
> 
> admin user (in wheel) group: allow user password
> non admin user: require root password
> 
> -- Rex
> 
I got it fixed so that I get prompted for root password, but yumex still requires my user password.  There are no sudoers rules enabled except root.

What's so special about yumex?

Emmett


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