Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (471 mails)

["David C. Rankin" <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 09 June 2009 08:43:27 Dave Plater wrote:

> Yast2 software management will not run from kde4 at all. Yast2 control
> center starts from a root konsole but I can't start software management
> from control center either. The log hangs at:-
> 2009-06-09 15:36:27 <1> Arbuthnot(4317) [ui] YUI.cc(YUI):62 Creating UI
> with threads
> Any ideas what to file a bug report against? Yast2 software management
> runs under kde3.
> Regards
> Dave P

Dave,

        I have fought this from 2 different directions. See my post (this list) 
of 
earlier today: Passwordless Access to Apps for Admins: sudo or kdesu for 
11.2/kde4.

        Check your .kde4/share/config/kdesurc and make sure it doesn't contain 
anything other than:

18:01 alchemy:~> cat .kde4/share/config/kdesurc
[Passwords]
Keep=true

        If it does, kdesu will behave very strange. With this setting I can 
access 
yast2, just by clicking on the yast icon and I get the prompt for the 
password:

http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/kde4/screenshots/kdesu-yast-
OK.jpeg

        However, it is annoying to be constantly prompted for the root password 
for 
every admin task and there should be some way of configuring kdesu to check 
group policies, etc.. so that access is given to those that need it (ME in 
particular).

        I do use sudo from the command line and I had resisted to temptation to 
set 
super-user to sudo for kde4 hoping to find a way to make kdesu work, but the 
only way I have to giving myself root access to all admin tasks without being 
prompted for a password is to use the old kwriteconfig had typed into a 
terminal as a normal user that modifies your .kde4/share/config/kdesurc. After 
setting up sudo as normal, issuing:

kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-
command sudo

        Modifies kdesurc as follows:

20:57 alchemy:~> cat .kde4/share/config/kdesurc
[Passwords]
Keep=true

[super-user-command]
super-user-command=sudo

        In this configuration, you get root access to all of your admin tasks 
(except 
in kde control center where I think the code is still completely missing...) I 
don't know what the "right" answer is. Everyone says not to use sudo, but 
nobody has fixed kdesu. A rather sticky wicket...

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