[ale] dialog box vanishing in Ubuntu

[Ron Frazier]

Brian,

Thanks for that tip.  I looked at the instructions, as well as looking at 
some information about editing the /etc/sudoers file.  I'm a bit reluctant 
to do that since you have to use visudoers to edit it and it's apparently 
easy to mess it up.  I can keep entering my password to start firestarter, 
but I'm still curious why that dialog box vanishes when gnome starts.

Also, I notice that my username, the only one on the computer, is in the 
Ubuntu admin group but not the sudo group.  Can anyone explain the 
functions of those two groups?

Ron

At 9/14/2010 07:25 PM -0400, Brian Pitts wrote:
>On 09/14/2010 03:11 PM, Ron Frazier wrote:
> > Brian,
> >
> > I did put an entry in the startup programs section.  They moved it, and it
> > now has its own position in the menu.  It's not under sessions any
> > more.  The dialog box is as menu / system / preferences / startup programs.
> >
> > I put the following line, which I got from a web page somewhere.
> >
> > su-to-root -X -c /usr/sbin/firestarter
> >
> > The one you referred to is:
> >
> > sudo firestarter --start-hidden
> >
> > I wonder what the difference is and which one is preferred.
>
>You can configure sudo to work without the password dialog box. See the
>steps under 'Giving the user permission to launch Firestarter without
>the root password' at http://www.fs-security.com/docs/faq.php#trayicon
>
>--
>All the best,
>Brian Pitts


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