On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:57 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich <hans.ullr...@loop.de> wrote: > > since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a > process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root > password, this is not accepted. > > But - when I use the password of the user I am working with in this cases, it > will work. This is very strange! The normal user can do things, that root > cannot do (only in KDE). > > I admit, it might be a setting problem in KDE, but I cannot remember, to > configure or change anything related to this behavior. > > Can someone give me a clue, what I can check, to get back to normal behavior? > > This problem appears only on my amd64-machine, my other two machines are > working fine.
Is root locked? I've never used kdesu but gksu has two modes that you can set when passing a command, "--su-mode" and "--sudo-mode", and, AFAIR, in GNOME it defaults to sudo. Does KDE do the same with kdesu? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=sw8n0zvccd2-niibwn99ejoygw_mxtjzfevpuwcos+...@mail.gmail.com
