Suse 9.0

[mdemers883]

I start up Suse and log in as a user. I then go to try access yast, it then asks for an admin password. I give my correct password and click run. Then nothing happens for a while then a window pops up ( Error gnomesu) which says "timeout while trying to execute 'su") I can get into yast fine if I logout then log back in as root and try to use yast...but I think I should be able to access it still when I'm logged in as a user. Any ideas?

 

 

mark

[ac_dispatcher]

Im not at home, but Ill try to help.

 

When Im in KDE and need "root" to enter a command I use - kdesu [command]. I think their is a GNOME equivilant (gsu?) but I havent found out yet (havent looked either).

 

here is what I have done to help myself in both KDE and others.

 

Make sure you are part of the "wheel" group. (in yast edit users and click "wheel").

Then open your favorite text editor as root. open /etc/sudoers

 

In there you will see something like

 

# %wheel ALL = (ALL) ALL NOPASSWD: ALL

 

uncomment it

 

%wheel ALL = (ALL) ALL NOPASSWD: ALL

 

here is some info:

http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/man/sudoers.html

 

then just

$sudo [command]

 

What you could also do instead of putting yourself in "wheel" is add the line:

 

mdemers883 ALL=(ALL) yast2

 

Of course change mdemers883 with your SUSE login name...

this is translated as:

user machine=(effective user) command

 

now if you wanted to be able to use sudo for all commands (not just yast):

mdemers883 ALL=(ALL) ALL

 

Im no Linux expert so I hope other will correct me if Im wrong here.

[mdemers883]

thank you :D I'll give that a try tonight when I get home from work

 

 

Mark

[mdemers883]

I added my user to the wheel group. I then changed the sudoers file to allow wheel to do all but it still din't work right. So I then changed the sudoers file to allow "luser" which is my user account to do all. Here is the file:

 

# sudoers file.
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers file.
#
                                                                               
# Host alias specification
                                                                               
# User alias specification
                                                                               
# Cmnd alias specification
                                                                               
# Defaults specification
Defaults targetpw
%users ALL=(ALL) ALL
                                                                               
# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL
                                                                               
# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
%luser ALL=(ALL)        ALL
                                                                               
"/etc/sudoers" 30L, 617C        

 

and here's what happens when I try to "sudo yast" and give the admin password:

 

luser@linux:~> sudo yast
Password:
luser is not in the sudoers file.  This incident will be reported.

 

What do you guys think?

 

Mark

[mdemers883]

oh, and as a sidenote I edited the file with vi, I"m not sure if that makes a difference.

 

 

Mark

[jlc]

I use sudo also, but you can also do the following in Suse

 

# sux

#passwd

#yast2

[mdemers883]

I use sudo also, but you can also do the following in Suse

 

# sux

#passwd

#yast2

thank you VERY much :D I tried "sudo yast2" and it worked just fine :D

 

 

Mark