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sudo-like behavior for PolicyKit
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I dislike typing my root password. It’s long and my fingers risk being tied in a knot every time I write it.
Being on a system with
sudobut without the knowledge of the root password, I tweaked PolicyKit today so that it asks for mysudouser password instead of the root one.[/etc] # hg diff diff -r 6ccbfd37b77d PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf --- a/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf Sat Mar 28 12:33:07 2009 +0200 +++ b/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf Sat Mar 28 11:40:55 2009 +0200 @@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ <!-- See the manual page PolicyKit.conf(5) for file format --> <config version="0.1"> +<define_admin_auth group="wheel"/> </config>
More info at
man PolicyKit.conf.Oh, and another thing. davidz rocks.
