SuSE (Yast2) in the menu

Stephen Kuhn skuhn at telpacific.com.au
Thu Jul 1 20:10:39 CEST 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-02 at 04:01, Sean Montgomery wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to XFce and am loving it.  Heck I am new to Linux.  Anyway, I
> have been trying to add yast2 to my right click menu.  The only way I
> can get it to run is by opening a terminal and typing "sudo
> /sbin/yast2" and then supplying the password.  XFce never asks for a
> password.  Is there a way to get this to work from the menu.  Thank
> you in advance.
> 
> Sean Montgomery

As root, you can do:

locate menu.xml

...note the location - you can edit that XML file and get creative.

I have manually modifed the menu to run programs with "sudo" and works
great (as long as you're in the sudousers file, ay?)

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