initially this did not work, i unchecked the "administrator" in the "user and groups" dialog, and now it works. perhaps that makes sense, but it is odd or a bug. Paul wrote: Hi David On Friday 26 September 2008, David Szakovits wrote: i have been running the emc-1.01 version. when i execute the ".run" file, i am prompted for the sudo password and at if i run the machine for a little while, i am also prompted when i exit. .the old bdi system never prompted me for sudo passwords and i would like this new system to work the same way, but i would prefer not to run as root. do you know the fix? i did compile the system as root if that makes any difference. As root, edit the /etc/sudoers file adding a line similar to: david ALL=NOPASSWD:ALL Note - This will allow you (or anyone else with your login) to be able to run _any_ command as root. Please be careful when prepending sudo to a command. Regards, Paul. _______________________________________________ Bdi4emc-help mailing list [1][email protected] [2]https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bdi4emc-help References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. https://lists.ourproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/bdi4emc-help