software update sys tray applet won't give me permission to update

[tomcloyd]

Re: software update sys tray applet won't give me permission to update

Vinny,
Thanks for staying with me on this.

A careful line by line examination of your file and mine reveals no difference. In each, only three lines are NOT commented out, and the order of those lines is the same in mine as in yours.

Here's mine:

# /etc/sudoers
#
# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
#
# See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file.
#

Defaults    env_reset

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# User privilege specification
root  ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow members of group sudo to not need a password
# (Note that later entries override this, so you might need to move
# it further down)
# %sudo ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

# Members of the admin group may gain root privileges
%admin ALL=(ALL) ALL

Any further thoughts?

[vinnywright]

Re: software update sys tray applet won't give me permission to update

I'm at a loss.......exept if mabey the file wasent saved right.....I read somthing about how if the file dosent have a corect end of file it wont work.

and I do have 1 more fix BUT EVERY ONE will say NEVER DO THIS

and that is to add your user to.

# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL

but this will make a big security hole to your SYS.........I think.......but it has goten me out of anoing surkumstanses in slakware befor.

VINNY

[tomcloyd]

Re: software update sys tray applet won't give me permission to update

I'm giving up on this. The size of the problem doesn't justify the time already spent on it. I can get by fine using apt-get upgrade. Thanks for your time and thoughts.

[dibl]

Re: software update sys tray applet won't give me permission to update

I don't blame you.

Reviewing the situation on this thread, I don't think there was ever anything wrong with your /etc/sudoers. But clearly somewhere in your previous adventures there was some corruption of permissions on something important. No way to know exactly what it might have been -- a power interruption, "sudo" doing something that should have been done by "user" --- can't tell. It's an uncommon problem report and so there's no obvious troubleshooting path. Sorry.