I'm running a GIT version of TDE.
In the Panel Terminal widget button is an optin called Root Shell. When I select that option I repeatedly receive an error message that the password is incorrect.
This is not a path problem because the same thing happens when I use the full path of /opt/trinity/bin/konsole --type su.
I have no such problems using tdesu or starting a normal konsole and then using su or su - to login in as root.
Can anybody confirm this behavior?
Darrell
On 02/09/2012 12:29 PM, Darrell Anderson wrote:
I'm running a GIT version of TDE.
In the Panel Terminal widget button is an optin called Root Shell. When I select that option I repeatedly receive an error message that the password is incorrect.
This is not a path problem because the same thing happens when I use the full path of /opt/trinity/bin/konsole --type su.
I have no such problems using tdesu or starting a normal konsole and then using su or su - to login in as root.
Can anybody confirm this behavior?
Darrell
Darrell,
What happens when you access administrator mode in kcontrol? i.e.:
kcontrol > System Administration > Font Installer > Administrator Mode
I have seen this cause problems with dbus and launchers after accessing anything in Administrator Mode that requires a logout/kdm restart to cure. I have seen this from 3.5.10 -> 3.5.13 on some installs and I have never been able to track down why. I have some installs currently (3.5.12) that function flawlessly in and out of Admin Mode and others that don't. IIRC there was an issue with configuring sudo access between kdesu and kdesudo. I don't know if you are hitting something related to that or not, but it's a thought.
In order to correct the KConfig values, we used to explicitly issue the command:
kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command sudo
I think this has been superseded, but it give you an avenue to check.
I'm running a GIT version of TDE.
In the Panel Terminal widget button is an optin called Root Shell. When I select that option I repeatedly receive an error message that the password is incorrect.
This is not a path problem because the same thing happens when I use the full path of /opt/trinity/bin/konsole --type su.
I have no such problems using tdesu or starting a normal konsole and then using su or su - to login in as root.
Can anybody confirm this behavior?
Anybody confirm this behavior?
Darrell
I can confirm something similar.
/usr/bin/konsole --type su
This flashes a konsole which closes.
/usr/bin/konsole --type su --noclose
This leaves the terminal open with the message that sudo was not found. My solution was to change the konsolesu.desktop desktop file Exec= command to: tdesu konsole
Jay
On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 3:54 PM, Darrell Anderson humanreadable@yahoo.comwrote:
I'm running a GIT version of TDE.
In the Panel Terminal widget button is an optin called Root Shell. When I select that option I repeatedly receive an error message that the password is incorrect.
This is not a path problem because the same thing happens when I use the full path of /opt/trinity/bin/konsole --type su.
I have no such problems using tdesu or starting a normal konsole and then using su or su - to login in as root.
Can anybody confirm this behavior?
Anybody confirm this behavior?
Darrell
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I'm running a GIT version of
TDE.
In the Panel Terminal widget button is an optin called
Root
Shell. When I select that option I repeatedly receive
an
error message that the password is incorrect.
This is not a path problem because the same thing
happens
when I use the full path of /opt/trinity/bin/konsole
--type
su.
I have no such problems using tdesu or starting a
normal
konsole and then using su or su - to login in as root.
Can anybody confirm this behavior?
Anybody confirm this behavior?
I found the problem. In three places the "Exec=su" command has been changed to "Exec=sudo su":
konsole.cpp su.desktop sumc.desktop
As far as I can tell, these changes were made in the initial 3.5.11 release.
I filed bug report 853.
konsole.cpp is fixable with a patch to test for both "su" and sudo su."
I don't know the best way to fix the two desktop files on a distro-specific basis. Tim?
Darrell
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