On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 12/31/05, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> >
> > > On 12/30/05, Eben King <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005, Chuck Hast wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > How do you get gkrellm to start without being asked the root
> > > > > password? I like to have it running when my machine comes up but
> > > > > when it does start it ask for the root pw before starting.
> > > >
> > > > Could be because I'm in the "disk" group, same group that owns
> > > > /dev/hda . That's only a WAG, though. Try turning off various
> > > > monitors and see when it stops asking.
> > >
> > > The instructons said to use kdesu in order to avoid it, but sure not
> > > working.
> >
> > Don't know what kdesu does.
>
> It is supposed to be the kde replacement for sudo...
If I needed to run something with root privs (but I don't, and I'd first try
making gkrellm sgid "disk" if I were you), I'd put
ALL pc=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/gkrellm
in /etc/sudoers ("pc" is the name of my machine). Maybe there's a
comparable file with kdesu?
Actually, I don't know whether sgid is more or less secure than sudo, but
it's a darn sight easier to set up.
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