Re: [trinity-users] R14: where is the user administration

On Friday 27 February 2015 09:01:53 Lisi Reisz wrote: 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. 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. 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. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>