Paul Johnson wrote:
Scarletdown <gsutton9503@charter.net> writes:I know the password is good, because I am able to login as root from a text-prompt, and can also SSH in as root from another system; so I am suspecting a problem with KDE itself. As another test, I tried logging in to KDE as root from kdm, and that fails as well.Never log in as root, no reason you need a full blown user environment running as root; kdm preventing you from doing so is the right behavior. Just open a konsole while you're logged in as yourself and use su -m to get a root shell, or use kdesu -c <command> in KDE's run dialogue if you need an X program.
Please read the whole thread, Paul. He tried that as a last resort. He already explained that anything that reqiured the root password from within KDE (I imagine using kdesu or gksu as a wrapper, as synaptic does) failed. -Roberto Sanchez
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