wicd asks for root password

[Forester]

Wow. Now I'm confused. Could you post your /etc/sudoers file for us. ?

I'd also still like to know how you turn off the automatic granting of root access.

[dinosoep]

Wow. Now I'm confused. Could you post your /etc/sudoers file for us. ?

I'd also still like to know how you turn off the automatic granting of root access.

yes, I can see your pretty confused
that code block is my sudoers file, it didn't let me upload the original sudoers file so I pasted the contents.

[Forester]

I asked my question a second time because I didn't realise the first question was on page 2 and thought I must have forgotten to ask it in the first place.

I understand now. Knoppix /etc/sudoers comes with the line:

knoppix ALL=NOPASSWD: ALL

which allows you to sudo anything without a password and the wicd desktop icon thing starts up without asking for a password. Changing this to:

knoppix ALL=PASSWD: ALL

is what I thought you must mean when you wrote:

automatic granting of root access has been disabled by me

This means you can still do sudo but you need to enter your password and the wicd desktop icon thing starts up asking for your (i.e. knoppix user not root) password.

Commenting out the line means you can't sudo any commands any more and it does not matter what password you give the wicd desktop icon thing, you can't use it to do anything useful and you may even get a network connection. Hmm. I thought it would fall back to asking for the root password 'cos that was what you said it had done.

So you added an exception to /etc/sudoers allowing wicd to start up properly without a password. Good. Myself I would have done:

knoppix ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/wicd
knoppix ALL=PASSWD: ALL

which means sudo wicd without password and sudo everything else with password.

I actually went to the LXDE menu. Desktop Session Settings (I think) and unchecked the option to start the wicd desktop icon thingy. That way I get no icon, so no password prompt, until (if) I start wicd from the LXDE menu. I still get a network connection. I still get a network connection when I boot into console mode with knoppix 2.