Hi to everyone. I am having SuSE 8.2 (KDE 3.1.1) , Qt 3.1.1, Greek locale. When i execute Yast2 via the KDE menu, KDEsu asks me for the ROOT passwd. That is fine. I check the 'Remember password' checkbox so that KDE remembers the root pass during the session. But when i close Yast2 and i re-run it, KDEsu still asks for the root password... Do u encounter the same problem under KDE 3.1.1 ? Can u reproduce it? I have tried to upgrade to KDE 3.1.2 with QT-3.2.0beta(or qt3.1.2) but the problem still persists. Any ideas? Thanks.
On Sunday 22 June 2003 09:40, Filippos Papadopoulos wrote:
Hi to everyone. I am having SuSE 8.2 (KDE 3.1.1) , Qt 3.1.1, Greek locale. When i execute Yast2 via the KDE menu, KDEsu asks me for the ROOT passwd. That is fine. I check the 'Remember password' checkbox so that KDE remembers the root pass during the session. But when i close Yast2 and i re-run it, KDEsu still asks for the root password... Do u encounter the same problem under KDE 3.1.1 ? Can u reproduce it? I have tried to upgrade to KDE 3.1.2 with QT-3.2.0beta(or qt3.1.2) but the problem still persists.
Any ideas?
Thanks.
Yes, it does the same here. I never use it but I tried it out to see what happened. I don't find it annoying, rather the opposite. IMO a root password should not be remembered by the computer but by the root user. -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. My holy cow is a penguin.
So it is a bug.BTW if u have to type a password for more than 15 times it becomes very tiresome... On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Bill Wisse wrote:
Yes, it does the same here. I never use it but I tried it out to see what happened. I don't find it annoying, rather the opposite. IMO a root password should not be remembered by the computer but by the root user.
* Filippos Papadopoulos (csst9923@cs.uoi.gr) [030622 14:54]:
So it is a bug.BTW if u have to type a password for more than 15 times it becomes very tiresome...
On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Bill Wisse wrote:
You could just use sudo. I've never had a problem with it. And you can set specific users (such as yourself) so that no passwd is required. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----------------------------------------------------------- The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
* Filippos Papadopoulos
So it is a bug. BTW if u have to type a password for more than 15 times it becomes very tiresome...
Feature, not bug, security feature. If you need to perform 15 operations as root, why don't you open a terminal as root once and launch your apps from there? -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
About 'sudo', i think that it just runs under the console not under KDE. So i want KDEsu. On the other hand when KDEsu has a checkbox that says 'Keep password' a user should expect that the password should be remembered. So if u dont like the word 'bug' for this, lets say it is a usability-mistake in KDEsu :) After all thats why KDEsu exists, to give u the ability to run applications as another user via the KDE menu not via the console. On Sun, 22 Jun 2003, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
Feature, not bug, security feature. If you need to perform 15 operations as root, why don't you open a terminal as root once and launch your apps from there?
* Filippos Papadopoulos (csst9923@cs.uoi.gr) [030622 15:33]:
About 'sudo', i think that it just runs under the console not under KDE. So i want KDEsu. On the other hand when KDEsu has a checkbox that says 'Keep password' a user should expect that the password should be remembered. So if u dont like the word 'bug' for this, lets say it is a usability-mistake in KDEsu :) After all thats why KDEsu exists, to give u the ability to run applications as another user via the KDE menu not via the console.
Well, I just excuted kdesu and I saw no GUI. It complained with this message.. kdesu: No command specified! kdesu: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. zsh: 28327 exit 254 kdesu If it has no GUI then I do not see any difference between this and sudo. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----------------------------------------------------------- The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
Op maandag 23 juni 2003 02:20, schreef Ben Rosenberg:
remembered. So if u dont like the word 'bug' for this, lets say it is a usability-mistake in KDEsu :) After all thats why KDEsu exists, to give u the ability to run applications as another user via the KDE menu not via the console.
BTW: the password will only be remembered for some time (120 minutes or so). The time can be specified somewhere in kde control center. Note: it never worked for me either.
Well, I just excuted kdesu and I saw no GUI. It complained with this message..
kdesu: No command specified! kdesu: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. zsh: 28327 exit 254 kdesu
If it has no GUI then I do not see any difference between this and sudo.
Try with e.g. kdesu -c /usr/sbin/synaptic or kdesu -c /sbin/yast2 -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
* Richard Bos (radoeka@xs4all.nl) [030622 23:24]:
If it has no GUI then I do not see any difference between this and sudo.
Try with e.g. kdesu -c /usr/sbin/synaptic or kdesu -c /sbin/yast2
Oh. Well. Why does one need that. I just type "sudo yast2" and I don't even have to put in a passwd because I've already specified myself as a trusted user by editing the sudoers file in /etc and putting this entry.. ben ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL *shrug* To each his/her own I suppose. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----------------------------------------------------------- The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
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