23 Nov
2011
23 Nov
'11
11:07 p.m.
On the other hand, I would like to emphasize an aspect
that
has been discussed before by this list: TDE is not neutral
in the use of su/sudo, use sudo by default due Ubuntu
heritage, but the reality is that numerous distributions use
su instead of sudo. Although you can change this setting
(some people already explained earlier in this list several
times), edit configuration files may seem complicated to the
newbies: it would be much easier if TDE allow easily choose
the authentication mechanism instead of using sudo by
default.
Hopefully we see an effort in R14 to restore the behavior of su and kdesu as expected in
non 'buntu/Debian distros. I filed bug reports 388 and 393 addressing the issues back
with 3.5.12.
Lately we have been addressing topics about improving TDE and improving awareness. Little
things like this go far with respect to public relations and perceptions.
Last night I posted additional information in bug report 393 that the problem might be ICE
related. A noticeable message I saw in my xsession log:
========================
Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication
protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed
========================
Searching the source code I notice the prefix part of the error message is found in
/qt3/src/kernel/qapplication_x11.cpp. The remainder of the message is found in
kdelibs/dcop/KDE-ICE/process.c.
Is this an ICE authentication problem? A password encryption and build problem like we saw
recently with KDM? That might explain why root's config files are not used.
Darrell