What are the permissions on these files? /usr/sbin/gparted /usr/sbin/gpartedbin I am thinking perhaps they are setuid root so everyone that runs them runs it as root. Which is a very bad idea obviously, but that is the only thing that comes to mind. --Ken 2009/3/9 Dave Walker <carol.dave.walker@xxxxxxxxx>: > I have just set up a Debian Lenny pc with a Gnome GUI. Some apps (like > GParted!) are allowing root access without requiring a password. Since the > pc will be used, unsupervised, by the public, this seems like a situation > that I should try to change. I must have done something during the install > that caused this to occur, but don't know what and don't know how to make > the necessary changes. Anybody??? > > Thanks > Dave W. > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
