On Thursday 31 December 2015 16.49:38 Greg Madden wrote:
Thierry
tdesu is a graphical frontend to 'su', root privledges, afaik uses the root password,
Yes, and it works that way. Launching any program with "tdesu <program name>" takes the root password and runs the program with root privileges.
This os different that the 'sudo' related TDE stuff, sudo et al uses the users password.The user has to be in the sudo group to work. No separate sudo password.
Your second png shows tdesudo being installed, all the TDE sudo packages depend on 'sudo', should be installed I 'am thinking, add users to the 'sudo' group.
tdesudo is _not_ installed (at least synaptic does not list it as installed)
I would be supspicious of Gnome stuff, is gksu installed?
No, not installed either.
another way to manage sudo users is with 'visudo' as root.
Adding my user to the sudo group (with kuser), the user password works in kpackage.
I think this is logical, as visudo shows:
# User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL
But what is not logical is that kpackage expects a sudo password when tdesudo is not installed. I thought not installing sudo meant using the root password. Debain was not installed with sudo, so why is it working?
Thierry