Re: KDE4 - wrong root password?
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullrich@loop.de> wrote:
>
> since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a
> process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root
> password, this is not accepted.
>
> But - when I use the password of the user I am working with in this cases, it
> will work. This is very strange! The normal user can do things, that root
> cannot do (only in KDE).
>
> I admit, it might be a setting problem in KDE, but I cannot remember, to
> configure or change anything related to this behavior.
>
> Can someone give me a clue, what I can check, to get back to normal behavior?
>
> This problem appears only on my amd64-machine, my other two machines are
> working fine.
Is root locked?
I've never used kdesu but gksu has two modes that you can set when
passing a command, "--su-mode" and "--sudo-mode", and, AFAIR, in GNOME
it defaults to sudo. Does KDE do the same with kdesu?
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