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On 12/30/2015 10:40 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote:
On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19.59:42 Michele Calgaro wrote: (...)
Now I've got a small problem with superuser rights with some programs. Until now kpackage-trinity and Gostcrypt have shown this behaviour:
- if I start the program (from TDE), at some point it will ask for the password. Neither the root password nor
the user password work.
- if I modify the program "icon" by adding "tdesu" before the command, the password is asked first, and the
program works correctly.
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Thierry
Hi Thierry, I tried to reproduce the problem on my system but I didn't see anything wrong. But maybe I was doing something different from you. Could you file a bug report with detail instructions on how to reproduce the post? Some screenshots would also be useful . Thanks Michele
OK, I once again forgot to link the pictures... :)
Hi Michele,
Not so easy... There's not much showing.
With kpackage, I get the same behaviour wether I start kpackage (from the TDE/kicker menu) or by right-clicking on the *.deb file and choosing "open with":
kpackage opens, I choose install, kpackage asks for the password (snapshot 1). Maybe a clue? It asks for the SUDO password - I have no sudo password. Neither the root nor the user password work. The dialog box disappears, then comes back, and so on.
If I modify the menu command in "tdesu kpackage", kpackage works (albeit I get a "tdeinit could not start tdesu" message...).
I tried starting kpackage from the command line but all I get is:
thierry@haswell:~$ kpackage TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for writing TQLayout "unnamed" added to TQVBox "page", which already has a layout thierry@haswell:~$ ^C thierry@haswell:~$
No idea if this tells you something...
Gostcrypt shows a similar behaviour, but with no message at all. I can select the crypted partition, but when I want to mount it this requires the root password, which is not taken, so of course gostcrypt does not get the superuser rights (snapshot 2). tdesu gostcrypt works perfectly, so this is not really a problem.
I also need tdesu to start synaptic, but this is more to get a nice dialog box (otherwise some text window is used to ask for the root password.
Thank you,
Thierry
Hi Thierry, I tried the same operation on my system (Debian/Stretch) and did not have any problem, after typing the root password I could install a package and also remove it. Obviously there must be some differences somewhere, so I have file bug report 2570 so we don't forget about it.
Cheers and Happy New Year to all users. Michele