[Wolves] Firestarter

[David Goodwin]

Stuart Langridge wrote:
> On 9/1/05, David Morley <davmor2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>I click on the picture in Applications/system tools and through the
>>voodoo of liunx a password prompt pops up.  I think it is probably
>>just a case of typing firestarter in shell prompt.  My correction sudo
>>firestarter
> 
> 
> Ah, you're starting it manually? OK. Typing "sudo firestarter" will
> still ask for your password, so that won't solve your problem.
> Instead, you need to change the "sudo" details so that you're allowed
> to use sudo to run firestarter *without* being asked for a password.
> At the moment I can't remember the exact syntax for doing that; you
> might want to RTFM about the command "visudo" and the file "sudoers".
> 
> Aq.
> 
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perhaps :

USER ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: /path/to/firestarter

Where you replace USER with your username. Use "visudo" to change 
/etc/sudoers.

thanks
David.

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