19 Dec
2015
19 Dec
'15
1:55 p.m.
On Saturday 19 December 2015 08:12:09 Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 2015/12/19 11:21 AM, Rolf Schmidt wrote:
debian wheezy has never had a root passwd known to the user. Unless they
follow Nik's proceedure to reset it. It does exist, but is not known to
the first user, so there rather effectively is not one as far as that
first user who has sudo rights is concerned.
You missed the point, it demands a root pw, that
on this wheezy
system,
> does not exist, so it cannot be launched from the menu entry by any
> pw entered. The pw used for doing a sudo is not accepted. That
> was my point.
Again, I see nothing wrong on a general basis.
If you are root (yes, not recommended I know) there is no problem to
run ksysv at all. If you are a standard user, you type in the root
password and everything works.
If your setup does not use a root password or you do not have access
to such password, you have the choice to edit the menu and remove the
ksysv entry. IMHO, the menu entry is fine as it is now since it
will work as
expected for the majority of the users.
Your idea of the word majority is miss-applied in the modern linux world.
Root password usage is pretty well deprecated by most distro's today,
using sudo instead, even in wheezy which is considered elderly these
days.
Unconventional setups will
need special handling for this type of problem. Just my 2 cents
Cheers
Michele
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