On Wed, Jun 21, 2023 at 2:24 AM Maurice Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > On 6/20/23 22:17, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > > On Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:03:24 -0400 > > Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > [...] > >> In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send > >> requests to a daemon that runs as root, or simply issue shell commands > >> with "sudo" or something, to do the parts that need extra privs. > >> > > I infer that Synaptic, by requiring root privileges to be truly useful, > > is mis-designed, since there isn't a daemon executing root level > > commands in the background. > > I'll not argue with that. > > But for the lists benefit, my last msg indicated I was going to logout > and back in. Which I tried to do, but with a root pw set, or something > else, IDK and don't at this point care because the only damned way I can > login is as root!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! > > So since I was root, and the screen looked normal for a different > account, I tested synaptic and it ran as root just fine, so I took > advantage of it, found the tasks section and installed all of gnome and > all of kde, to the extent that the task pulled in several hundred > packages each time for each interface. > > And it didn't make a fat rats ass of difference EXCEPT if I su me, then > cd /home/gene, nothing with a gui can be run as me, display 0:0 is > locked away from me, in essence reversing the can't open display errors > I was getting as me for sudo-ing to do gui and root requiring tasks. > > Explain that. > > I can change my (gene's) pw to anything and back successfully, but its > no damned good at the login requester. I'm sorry if I sound exasperated > but that is exactly where I am. Luckily I remembered the pw at my isp > or I would not be sending this. I gave up and went to bed about 22:00 > but was so frustrated I couldn't sleep. So I'm back up wih 4x4's under > my eyelids but I'm alive.
Who are you? I thought a person named Gene was having trouble. Why are you logging in as gene? Are you gene? Jeff
