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Hi,
when trying to adjust date or time in KDE 5_17.11 from Alienbob's repo on Slackware 14.2,
get error:
Code:
Unable to authenticate/execute the action (Code 4)
I know I can do the adjustment from terminal, but the lack of ability to do it from Plasma is very annoying, so I would be grateful for help with Plasma.
Last edited by bam80; 08-20-2018 at 07:03 PM.
Reason: question correction
Hi,
when trying to adjust date or time in KDE 5_17.11 from Alienbob's repo on Slackware 14.2,
get error:
Code:
Unable to authenticate/execute the action (Code 4)
I know I can do the adjustment from terminal, but the lack of ability to do it from Plasma is very annoying, so I would be grateful for help with Plasma.
The issues with adjusting date or time using the interface from KDE4 or Plasma5 is a famous "bug" generated by the lack of LinuxPAM in Slackware.
Sadly, there's no fix until Slackware adopts LinuxPAM.
The issues with adjusting date or time using the interface from KDE4 or Plasma5 is a famous "bug" generated by the lack of LinuxPAM in Slackware.
I can't speak for Plasma5 since I haven't used it, but I've never had a problem adjusting my date/time with KDE4 with my normal user. It pops up an authentication box asking for my root password and then it adjusts it as expected.
@OP, Eric prefers bug reports for ktown on his blog rather than the forum. He may be able to confirm your issue or be able to provide a fix for you.
Eventually, our BDFL intends to add the LinuxPAM support on Slackware 15.0.
Not sure if this is just a translation issue, but he never said he intends to add it to 15.0, just that he's been looking into it.
Quote:
Originally Posted by volkerdi
As far as Slackware 15.0 goes, I've been testing PAM and Kerberos here and have given quite some thought to trying to get them merged (or at least in /testing) so that we can have proper support for Active Directory and NFS.
So, he's been testing and thinking about it, but according this post, he hasn't made a decision on whether it will be integrated or not.
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