How can I login once per session and not have to reenter my root password every time I open YaST, etc. I believe in good security so I use strong passwords and I am also new to Linux which requires a lot of toying around so I have to enter my password over and over every session.
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You could setup sudoers so you could call ‘sudo /path/to/application’
and have that NOT prompt you for a password. ‘man sudoers’ for more
information. There may be other options, GUI-ish options even, that I
don’t know about though.
Good luck.
Good luck.
OpenSourceRules wrote:
> How can I login once per session and not have to reenter my root
> password every time I open YaST, etc. I believe in good security so I
> use strong passwords and I am also new to Linux which requires a lot of
> toying around so I have to enter my password over and over every
> session.
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OpenSourceRules wrote:
> How can I login once per session and not have to reenter my root
> password every time I open YaST, etc. I believe in good security so I
> use strong passwords and I am also new to Linux which requires a lot of
> toying around so I have to enter my password over and over every
> session.
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>
Another option is start up a terminal and su to privileged user. The
just start yast by running yast2.
If you are going to be doing a lot with YaST, why not leave it open? Minimise it if you won’t want to look at it, and lock your screen when you go away for a while (good idea anyway).
Thanks, thats the way I’m goin’.
On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 00:26 +0000, OpenSourceRules wrote:
> How can I login once per session and not have to reenter my root
> password every time I open YaST, etc. I believe in good security so I
> use strong passwords and I am also new to Linux which requires a lot of
> toying around so I have to enter my password over and over every
> session.
Add your account to the wheel group (openSUSE/SLES 10+) make
sure kdesu is set to use sudo, add (uncomment) the settings for
sudo (visudo) to allow wheel users to administrative things…
When you start graphical yast2 you will be asked to type the
root password… but instead, you will need to provide your own.
Now… this doesn’t keep you from having to type a password…
just keeps you from typing the root password all of the time.
HTH (but I know it’s not exactly what you were looking for)
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