Comments on: How to get Unrestricted Access in Linux http://techie-buzz.com/foss/how-to-disable-uac-on-linux.html Know your technology head on Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:01:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Anirudhhttp://techie-buzz.com/foss/how-to-disable-uac-on-linux.html/comment-page-1#comment-42328 Anirudh Fri, 28 Aug 2009 08:47:24 +0000 http://techie-buzz.com/?p=6529#comment-42328 1. Editing the sudoers file should be done with "visudo", which does some syntax checking and updates other files afterwards. 2. Don't ever ___EVER___ grant full root privileges to yourself. It's never required unless you're doing system level tasks, or installing software to protected folders.If you are too pissed with having to enter a password, run "sudo su" in a terminal to open a root console, and use that - don't make your gdm run as another user, it's dangerous and outright stupid. 1. Editing the sudoers file should be done with “visudo”, which does some syntax checking and updates other files afterwards.
2. Don’t ever ___EVER___ grant full root privileges to yourself. It’s never required unless you’re doing system level tasks, or installing software to protected folders.

If you are too pissed with having to enter a password, run “sudo su” in a terminal to open a root console, and use that – don’t make your gdm run as another user, it’s dangerous and outright stupid.

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