On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 06:18:32PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > >>So I gave myself full sudo access, disabled root logins, and eliminated > >>the root password. Works great on the command line. > >Then, append the line "UGROUPS=wheel" to the end of every file in > >/etc/security/console.apps which you want to have sudo-like behavior. > Thank-you. > This gives the desired behavior for users in group wheel. However, for > users not in wheel it still asks for the nonexistent root password. Is > there a way to have the system simply state something like, "You don't > have permission to access this program. Contact your system administrator?" Yes. In each of these files, there is a line which say says "USER=root". Change that to "USER=<none>" (brackets and all), and, in combination with UGROUPS=wheel, you'll get this behavior. (Anyone in wheel will be asked for their own password; anyone else will get an "Insufficent Rights" error. Which isn't as helpful as "contact your sysadmin", but close.) > Or perhaps there is a man page/doc I should take a look at instead of > asking here. Any pointers? It's all documented in the "userhelper" man page, which I realize isn't obvious. -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
