Hi guys. I enabled automatic updates on my suse 10.2 recently. Today I noticed an “orange buble” icon with full stop in the bottom tray. If I click on it it shows me the 5 updates that are available to install. So far so good, but I wouldn’t like to allow the normal user to apply the updates, I would rather login as root and install the updates when I notice that “orange update buble”, but the problem is, that I don’t know the command to run this updater from terminal? Thanks for your help.
Firstly NEVER LOG ON AS ROOT!
Why don’t you want normal users to update?
You don’t need to log in as root. Just type use su in a console then **zypper dup
**Geoff
You might want to consider this
openSUSE-10.2 support ceases on 30-Nov-2008 - openSUSE Forums
Any user that installs updates must be able to go ‘su’ to do so. Do not login as root.
I have one user (me the system manager) wich has the applet. For other users, when I install them, I login and remove the applet so it will not bother them (they can not do anything wrong, because they do not know the root password).
And to add further to the theme of ‘login as root’: SDB:Login as root - openSUSE
Thank you all, I intend to login as root just from console in order to apply updates. I didn’t know the command zypper dup :). Thanks again.