Goood John, But you please also clarify what does sudo means; if it expects my own password then why not i can execute these command without giving "sudo" as prefix. If i am a genuine sudoer then can i edit files on which only root has execution rights. Regards, Vijay Shanker Dubey Ph: +91-9818311884 On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:59 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > vijay shanker wrote: > > Hi guys, > > > > Thanks > > > > What i am trying to achieve is; when executing > > > > # sudo make install > > Password:********* > > > > this password entered is root password. > > sudo expeccts your USER password, not the root password. the whole > idea is the admin doesn't ened to give out the root password to give > controlled admin privs to a user. > > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20091023/26347a9c/attachment-0004.html>