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On 14/06/13 13:02, Neil Winchurst wrote:
Further to the above, I checked via synaptic and found that gksu was not installed. So I installed it and I can now start a program as root via alt-f2, eg gksu mousepad.On 14/06/13 11:04, Philip Hudson wrote:On 14 Jun, 2013, at 9:18 am, Chris Tipney wrote:the sudo command will ask for the root password of courseNo, it will ask for your own password. -- Phil Hudson http://hudson-it.no-ip.bizThanks for all the help with this. I am so used to sudo that I decided to add myself to the sudo group as suggested. To do this I used su in a terminal to become root and ran adduser neilwin sudo. Then I restarted. Sudo now works in a terminal, and yes it does want my normal password and not the one I set up for root. However gksu and gksudo are not recognised. I also expected to be able to start mousepad as root using alt-F2 but this did not work. Strange. Anyway, thanks again, and I will now have a good look at Debian Xfce. Neil
Strange to say though, using gksu I need the root password. Using sudo in a terminal screen I need my 'normal user' password!
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