KDE/security issues
 

Hey

Im having problems with KDE. I am attatching an Image of the error message that I get. The problem arrises when I try and change settings and it asks for the root password to operate as root. You will see what I am talking about when you see the image!! The system seems to run fine when you actually fully log out of that user and log in as root but it doesn't like accessing root from this user????

Sounds odd, I know. Also the user I am executing this from is an administrator so shouldnt have any problems.

The problem really arose when I was running firestarter. I was running firestarter. Firestarter usually asked for a root password when starting up. Unfortunately when I went into it one day I aciddentaly pressed cancel to it. ever since the it has been doing this..........

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y10.../snapshot1.jpg

Please HELP!!!

If you need any more info simply ask. I am a little confused by this problem.

Try 'killall kdesu' and then restart x server.
Make sure you exit all other running programs and save
your work before that though.

Im putting that into the Konsole but its coming back,

kdesu:no process killed

????

Okay, I was thinking maybe KDE didn't kill the process
all the way and was restarting it every time KDE
started up. KDE's done that to me with some other
programs before.

Try this to see if it's running:
where username is your linux username.

Maybe you should check that when KDE starts up, if
it is running then that could be your problem, otherwise
the problem is something else.

hey,

Its wierd, when I typed that then nothing came up :(

I wasnt sure whether I had typed it correctly so I double and triple checked it and I typed it exactly how you did there and the command seemed to run, as the first time but did not show any results???

Is this normal???

d'oh! I should have told you that is normal.

the grep program checks for spots in a file that
match, and if it finds a match, it prints the line it
found a match on.

If it doesn't print anything, it just means it didn't
find anything, which in this case means the program
isn't running.

I thought the problem might be that KDE is starting
it up when it shouldn't, but it looks like your
problem is something else.

Maybe someone else can help?

OK dude, thanx for your help anyway, much appreciated

Does anyone else have any ideas???