On 11/19/2009 03:29 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On Sunday 15 November 2009 09:24:11 pm John Andersen wrote:
On Sunday 15 November 2009 03:53:55 pm Jim Flanagan wrote:
I did a fresh install of oS11.2 on a freshly formatted partiton, default KDE. When I open File Manager - Super User Mode, it does not allow access to root files. I tried this several times, and only once did it function properly. The other times fail to access the file. I did not do anything differently, just opening File Manager - Super User Mode while logged in as a regular user. It does as for root password (different than the user password), but won't allow file access. I can see the files, but not open them.
Any thoughts welcome.
Jim F
I'm seeing the same thing. You can browse to /root (for example) but you can neither copy or open any file. Any subordinate task is launched by the user (not superuser), and as such the task can't even see the file.
Did you create a real root password during install, or did you just use the default settings where the first user is kind of a "super user"?
I created a traditional root account on install and I can browse, copy, "do whatever" with the files in /root using File Manager - Super User Mode.
I did as you, set my normal user as one, with a separate password for root. logged in as User, opening File Manager - Super User Mode brings up the screen to enter root password, and I do. But it won't allow access to root level files. I can browse, see the file, click to open in say, Kwrite or something, but then get an error message saying could not open Kwrite. If I'm logged in a root them of course no problem, only when logged in a User.
I also set kdesurc to use sudo as super user, so I am not prompted for a password to access root applications (yast included). The old trick of entering the following in alt+f2 or in a normal user konsole does the trick:
kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user- command sudo
(all one line)
Of Course you must configure sudo first by running 'visudo' and uncommenting the following line:
%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL
and then adding yourself to the wheel group in /etc/group.
Are you saying here that by making this change, you then don't have to enter a root password to get to yast? Why would you want to do that? What's the difference between this an just logging is a root? Perhaps I'm not clear on sudo. Thanks, Jim -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org