At the end of the man page for sudo, there's the following remark:
Running shell scripts via sudo can expose the same kernel bugs that
make setuid shell scripts unsafe on some operating systems (if your OS
has a /dev/fd/ directory, setuid shell scripts are generally safe).
Pretty much everything in that paragraph is obscure to me.
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Here is the situation. Changed unity shell to gnome shell. Installed the gnome tweak tool, installed the shell extension, themes, etc...everything i normally need to do that is installed
When i go to gnome tweak tool, and click on shell extension, the right list is empty
I've surfed the web and questions for answer.
i would love any help with this just to help out i already ran these comands
sudo apt-get clean
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get -f install
is this a bug?
why do i have Online Accounts twice?
even thou i have no chat client installed and i have perform this command several times:
sudo apt-get remove gnome-online-accounts*
sudo apt-get purge gnome-online-accounts*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
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I search a clean way to delete every users from the 'sudo' group. On several distributions the user created during the installation process has sudo rights, I don't want this.
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I wanted to switch to xfce (I had kde and gnome installed), and I did this :
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-desktop
sudo apt-get autoremove
but to my surprise, I could still pick gnome, kde plasma, etc during the log in.
So, how do I completely remove KDE and gnome desktops?
Below are the instructions that I need to carry out:
1. Navigate to the Symantec AntiVirus virus definitions directory (default location is: `/opt/Symantec/virusdefs`) in the terminal.
2. Remove any `*.tmp` or `temp` files or folders.
3. Remove any numbered folders.
4. Ensure that the 3 remaining folders are empty.
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