I'm currently working on a bash script that installs and sets up various programs on a stock Linux system (currently, Ubuntu).
I'm currently working on a bash script that installs and sets up various programs on a stock Linux system (currently, Ubuntu).
What are the differences between the following ways to run Nautilus with elevated privileges:
a)
sudo nautilus
b)
gksu nautilus
c)
gksudo nautilus
Which should I use?
Is it possible to capture packets without superuser?
This is what I see in the wikipedia article:
In some Unix-like operating systems, a user must have superuser privileges to use tcpdump because the packet capturing mechanisms on those systems require elevated privileges. However, the -Z option may be used to drop privileges to a specific unprivileged user after capturing has been set up.
I'd like to create an account that is not a domain admin, so user cannot log into ADUaC, GP editor, etc but has privileges to access the Event Viewer, install printer drivers and applications on a client PC.
This will be for a student worker to help ease our workload and do basic troubleshooting. How can I create this type of ac
What exactly does this mean? A Google search didn't reveal a whole lot about this. I've noticed in 11.2 that when (for example) I enter my root password to install updates, a little key icon appears in the tray. If I click it (which I did, by mistake :) ), the updates won't finish, so this obviously drops the root privileges for the updater applet.
Ubuntu 10.04
When I execute a sudo or gksu evolution (e.g. synaptic package manager) I find that the escalated privileges remain in effect for a period of time. Sometimes, not often, the notifier applet shows an icon indicating that escalated privileges are in effect.
What I would like to know:
Hello everybody.
I have been using openSUSE in my desktop pc since few months so I am not really an expert in it.
I have run through a problem and I would appreciate any help:
Accidentaly I changed the permissions of different files in the root (/) directory.
As a direct result the sudo privileges, accessible until that moment by my user, disappeared.
In fact if I tried using "sudo zypper
I've set up sudo not to prompt for password by editing the sudoers file:
myuser ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
And it works fine, running sudo with no password prompting. But when entering sudo -v I noticed that it prompted for password, only once.
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