kdesu no longer accepts root password
kdesu will no longer work, it asks for the root password but will not accept it saying it is incorrect. I can still su with no problem so the root password works but not in kdesu.
Note: the root password had not been changed recently thanks, |
Going to the basics - is Caps Lock disabled (or enabled if your password is in caps), if it's on a laptop is num lock disabled?
Does it work if you use su in a console? |
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The following work fine: su from konsole ssh -X-l root localhost ..... AND gnomesu from the cli but not kdesu worse comes to worse I'll alias 'kdesu=gnomesu' |
Weird, I've seen this on Debian (and the fix was to uninstall and reinstall KDE IIRC) but not elsewhere. Did you recently do a mass upgrade?
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yes, I recently did a KDE upgrade and the only similar problem occurances I found where Debian as you correctly recalled, the solution I remember seeing was to downgrade just the kdesu executables
Since I used the KDE:/KDE3/openSUSE_10.2/ on opensuse.org I assume that others did the same upgrade and would have have the same error. I checked what kde rpms I had installed and they seemed to be consistant except for the 32bit libs which aren't in the upgrade repo. Seems my alternatives are: -post to other forums -downgrade to original kde rpms -live with it |
Less than 24h ago an update to yast2-sudo has been released.
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I'll just live with gnomesu for the time being. thanks, |
Found a thread in Suseforums (by way of GoogleGroups)http://www.suseforums.net/index.php?...0&#entry155501
that I used to fix my problem. I removed the sudo and yast2-sudo rpms and then reinstalled them, I also cleared my sudousers file just in case (of course I saved and reused it). I then tested yast2-sudo and thing went fine when I ran kdesu. regards, |
Excellent - glad to hear you fixed it and thanks for posting the fix.
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