Re: [orca-list] Admin Features for Slackware Users

[Steve Holmes <steve holmesgrown com>]

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I'm still messing with this with no success.  I understand that the
menus launch with something other than sudo hence the password
prompt.  I consistently get silence from that approach.  When I try
something like 'sudo network-admin', from a terminal, I get a
backtrace and a bunch of errors saying that it can't establish a
terminal or display.  It's like the earlier errors people got when
trying to run orca from a terminal.  When I tried it from alt-f2, I
didn't get any errors but the application never launched.

I will include a copy of my sudoers as it is quite smal; maybe I'm
missing something there.

Oh btw, I don't have the application gslapt here; have no idea what
that is so have to try one of these others.

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

# Host alias specification

# User alias specification

# Cmnd alias specification

# Defaults specification
#
Defaults env_reset
Defaults env_keep+="GTK_MODULES"

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL) ALL

# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
#%wheel ALL=(ALL)       ALL

# Same thing without a password
%wheel  ALL=(ALL)       NOPASSWD: ALL

# Samples
# %users  ALL=/sbin/mount /cdrom,/sbin/umount /cdrom
# %users  localhost=/sbin/shutdown -h now
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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 02:22:19PM +0100, Michael Whapples wrote:
> As already suggested to you, try using sudo from a terminal window. I am
> using slackware 12.0 and just tried a couple of things. Starting it from
> the menu the first time, gksudo appeared prompting me for my password,
> when I entered it and pressed enter, nothing it went silent, may be
> something was taking its time but I decided to give up. Trying sudo from
> the gnome-terminal I was prompted for my password in the gnome-terminal
> and then the application appeared and was accessible. Next I tried
> starting something from the menu again, and it did not prompt me for my
> password (one assumes it must have cached the password) and the
> application appear accessible. May be its something to do with that
> gksudo window.
>
> Just doing some more, I tried launching the application again from the
> menu (its been long enough I need to enter my password again, and it
> doesn't speak after the password dialog, and when I close it and
> relaunch it immediately from the menu, it still seems inaccessible. I am
> concluding that from the menu is not so reliable as from a
> gnome-terminal and sudo.
>
> The application I have been trying with is gslapt if this is of
> interest.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Michael Whapples
> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 22:01 -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
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> > I thought I would try and apply some of the methods outlined in the
> > wiki page for system administrative functions and the notes recently
> > placed on this list.  Namely the .orbit file in /root home directory
> > and the update to /etc/sudoers file.  But alas, it doesn't work for
> > me.  I get a password prompt when I go into any of the functions off
> > the admin menu but upon entering the root password, all goes silent.
> > As soon as I exit that function, then I get Orca back.  Once I tried
> > to start Orca from within that function and Orca started but then when
> > I alt tabbed back and forth, I would hear that admin function was
> > "Inaccessible". Orca actually spoke "Inaccessible." But if I try and
> > alt tab to that task anyway, it just goes silent. I can alt tab away
> > from that silent task and then I have speech again.  I also tried for
> > the heck of it to run "sudo orca" from an alt-F2 run box but that went
> > silent and I had to restart X to get out of that one.  I also cannot
> > run startx from a root session either.  I don't know enough about
> > gnome to understand why it works from a normal user but not from
> > root.  Seems strange to me.
> >
> > Anyway, are there any Slackware users out there being able to use any
> > of the admin functions from Orca?  It would appear that the
> > instructions and hipe about accessing admin stuff only works for
> > Ubuntu for some dumb reason.
> >
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