On Saturday 19 December 2015 08:12:09 Michele Calgaro wrote:
On 2015/12/19 11:21 AM, Rolf Schmidt wrote:
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.
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.
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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