Re: Root Privilege Issue

From	ARAVIND B KUMAR <aravind.aravind892@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: Root Privilege Issue
Date	2017-10-07 17:50 +0200
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Yes But Not Changed

On Sat, Oct 7, 2017 at 9:09 PM, <tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 07, 2017 at 08:51:01PM +0530, ARAVIND B KUMAR wrote:
> > First Of All Thanks For The Replay And We Change The Normal User To
> > Administrator Using User Admin Tool Which I Attach The Screen Shot Of It
> > And Before I Change The User To Administrator While Mount The Hard drive
> It
> > Ask For Root Password But Now It Ask For User Password  And I Attach The
> > Screen Shot And We Didn't Use The Command To Change And We Didn't Mean
> > About Adding User To Group Sudoers
>
> I'm sorry I don't know very much about desktop environments, but if I
> interpret your description correctly, what this button ("Administrator")
> seems to be doing is adding the user to the sudoers group.
>
> That suspicion is reinforced by the fact that formerly you were asked
> the root password and now the user's password. BUT... desktop environments
> have sometimes their very own funny ways of doing things.
>
> Perhaps someone with more clues on desktop environments can chime in.
>
> Have you tried the "Advanced" settings?
>
> Again -- if you start a terminal as a normal user, what is the output
> of the commands "id -G" and "id -Gn" (those print the groups that user
> is member of: the first by number, the second by name)
>
> Cheers
> - -- tomás
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Root Privilege Issue ARAVIND B KUMAR <aravind.aravind892@gmail.com> - 2017-10-07 08:10 +0200
  Re: Root Privilege Issue Tapio Lehtonen <tale@taleman.fi> - 2017-10-07 10:40 +0200
  Re: Root Privilege Issue Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2017-10-07 11:30 +0200
    Re: Root Privilege Issue <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-07 13:10 +0200
      Re: Root Privilege Issue tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-10-07 17:40 +0200
        Re: Root Privilege Issue ARAVIND B KUMAR <aravind.aravind892@gmail.com> - 2017-10-07 17:50 +0200
          Re: Root Privilege Issue tomas@tuxteam.de - 2017-10-07 18:00 +0200

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