mount plugin

Scott Jones scottj.org at gmail.com
Sat Dec 23 23:00:53 CET 2006


On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:43, Joe Klemmer wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 15:09 +1100, Terry wrote:
> > If I use sudo in Xfce (which I just now attempted for the first time),
> > I am asked for a password.  (Difficult for me, because I can never
> > remember which password I'm supposed to give to use sudo.)
>
> 	Just in case it wasn't already said...  When using sudo the passwd it's
> asking for is the user who is running the sudo command (i.e. your user
> passwd).

By default, yes.  Some distributions, though, have targetpw set, which causes 
sudo to ask for the password of the target user (defaults to root if no user 
is specified).



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