Why does reboot and poweroff require root privileges?
What security risk is posed by not requiring this to have root privileges? The GUI provides a way for any user to shut off or restart, so why do the terminal commands need to be run as root?
sudo
” sudo: source: command not found”
Process model
How to export variable for use with sudo?
On Slackware, using sbopkg permits one to build a package from source. Repos is not big as Debian, but it’s nice.
Why is the ‘sudo’ password different than the ‘su root’ password
On my personal machine, I often type sudo in front of certain commands in order to accomplish administrative tasks. I had hoped to avoid doing this throughout the day, by typing su root and providing the same password I usually do for sudo. However, the two passwords are not the same(I don’t know how to log in to su root). Is running a command with sudo different than logging in with su root and running the same command?
pass 1 environment variable using sudo
Is this a correct way for passing an environment variable in sudo ?
Trouble with running cd with sudo as another user
I want to run a command on a shell on behalf of another user. The command is as follows:
When do su and sudo use different passwords?
I am able to run anything using sudo; my password is accepted. But whenever I try to do su from a shell, it fails with:
using sudo on GUI applications
When I was using kubuntu, I could always open X applications with sudo, sudo kate for example. Now that I’ve switched to arch that doesn’t work. I know I’ve always been told to use kdesu, but what setting is there in kubuntu that lets me use sudo on X apps that prevents me from doing it on arch?
What is the proper sudoers syntax to add a user?
According to the comments in /etc/sudoers (Fedora 13):