On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:15:40AM +0100, Thomas V. Fischer wrote: > How do you force the use of sudo instead of the root password for launching > the system-config-??? Tools via the application menu? > I believe you need to change something in the /etc/pam.d files but not sure > what You could use sudo, but there's a Better Way Now. 1) put yourself in the group "wheel" with 'gpasswd wheel -a username'. (Or any other group, but wheel is traditional.) 2) appened the line "UGROUPS=wheel" to the appropriate files in /etc/security/console.apps. For example, to enable this behavior for system-config-users, simply add the line to /etc/security/console.apps/system-config-users. This makes the tools prompt for the root password for those not in the wheel group, and asks for auth-as-self (a la sudo) for those who are members. If you want non-wheel members to be completely denied with no prompt, change USER=root to USER=<none> in the console.apps file. The main advantage over sudo is that you get the GUI prompt when picking the programs from the menu. Unfortunately there's no easy way to make the change globably. An additional tab on system-config-securitylevel that manages this might be cool. (This requires 1.74-1 or higher -- so FC3.) -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/>
