hi
how are you today?
i know that’s danger thing
but its really annoying me for asking root password to do a lot of things.
so how to grant my user root privileges?
thanks
I’m sorry, but I’m not going to provide instructions on how to bork your system and it’s security. IMHO that is what you’re trying. If I would, trouble would be coming your way, no doubt, and when posted here it would be out in the open.
??? You only need (and thus should) user root for system managment things. Once your system is fit for usage that can’t be too often. In my case it is about once or twice a week (doing software updates once a week and maybe another thing needed).
On the systems I manage, 99% of the time they are available to the end-users (me included) for the work we have them for. What did you acquire the system for?
On 2013-12-16 12:56, hossam 2009 2008 wrote:
>
> hi
>
> how are you today?
>
> i know that’s danger thing
>
> but its really annoying me for asking root password to do a lot of
> things.
>
> so how to grant my user root privileges?
That’s not possible. However, you can configure sudo so that it asks for
your user password for certain tasks, instead of the default non
configured state it comes with.
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
I wondered this myself, can it be done via YaST as opposed to commandline and manually editing files?
On 2013-12-16 14:26, MadmanRB wrote:
> I wondered this myself, can it be done via YaST as opposed to
> commandline and manually editing files?
Not that I know… you are supposed to run “visudo” in a terminal, which
calls an editor with the file opened, and verifies it is correct before
accepting it. You can choose your preferred editor with the variable
“EDITOR”.
Hum.
I see there is in fact a sudo module in YaST. I don’t remember having
used it. It doesn’t seem to add much to it, though… :-?
Just try it and comment back 
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Cheers / Saludos,
Carlos E. R.
(from 12.3 x86_64 “Dartmouth” at Telcontar)
On 12/16/2013 07:38 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> On 2013-12-16 14:26, MadmanRB wrote:
>
>> I wondered this myself, can it be done via YaST as opposed to
>> commandline and manually editing files?
>
> Not that I know… you are supposed to run “visudo” in a terminal, which
> calls an editor with the file opened, and verifies it is correct before
> accepting it. You can choose your preferred editor with the variable
> “EDITOR”.
>
> Hum.
>
> I see there is in fact a sudo module in YaST. I don’t remember having
> used it. It doesn’t seem to add much to it, though… :-?
YaST => Security and Users => Sudo works fine. I have added certain commands
that are used frequently so that I do not need to supply the root password when
using them; however, I am careful not to include anything that would give
permanent root privilege. You should be careful as well.