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firestarter package

  1. Bug #30291
  2. Comment #10

Comment 10 for bug 30291

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JoshuaPurcell (joshua-purcell) wrote :

This is the exact line that worked for me in Breezy to bring up the Firestarter GUI without asking for a password:
%admin ALL=NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/firestarter

This does not work for me in Dapper. This is the error I receive:
(firestarter:18882): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

In my comment directly above this one, the sudoers entry I gave allows me to bring up any command that has the requirements of running with root priveleges and using the X display. The only problem with this is that it still asks for a password (which doesn't really help). The following command allows me to run any command with similar requirements, but without asking for a password:
%admin ALL=(root) NOPASSWD: ALL