On Friday 27 February 2015 15:42:39 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Friday 27 February 2015 09:01:53 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Friday 27 February 2015 13:24:21 Uwe Brauer wrote:
"Dave" == Dave Lers lists@dalrun.com writes:
Dan Youngquist wrote:
On 02/26/2015 03:22 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote:
However I opened the control center and I cannot find the user administration tool and am familiar with. Is this included any new package?
Is it kuser you're looking for? I think you have to install it
System > User Manager (KUser), default r14 on Wheezy.
And what is with the old one I posted a screenshot of?
I think that that is basically an Ubuntu programme. Perhaps it uis in Synaptic, if it is no longet there by default.
Lisi
Lisi; I ran into something else last night using that admin utility. I use sudo for all the root stuff and have never even set a root password.
This is a more of less default wheezy install, and uses sudo for all that stuff.
No, Gene, it isn't. You installed that cnc or something special version.
The password for "admin", eg root, tasks does not accept the users sudo password, asking for the (root? it doesn't say) password in a forever loop. This is a bug. I suspect its TDE wide in effect. And should be filed.
No, it isn't a bug. Just set up a root password. Most of us using Debian (not all, I agree) have one. Google "ubuntu set root password".
I can generally hack around it with a sudo -i session of geany, (never gedit as it can trash, BTDT, several times, your whole system,) but find that it also does not work because the root acquired in that manner cannot run any graphical interfaces since the X session is the users. So an immortal root session to get several things done, is turned into an individual sudo name_of_command.
That can be a right PITA, even for a user whose first linux install was Red Hat 5.0 in 1998.
There was at one time a workaround which consisted of actually starting another X session for root, a bad practice IMO, and I've long since forgotten how to do it. 80 yo wet ram problems. Yeah, old coot at the wheel here.
Just set up a root password! And do remember, because it seems often to be relevant, you have NOT got a default Wheezy install. (You had issues with that, remember? You found a one person bug!!)
Lisi