On 2023-07-05 17:50, Per Inge Oestmoen via openSUSE Users wrote:
Hello all!
I have four machines here, all with openSUSE Leap 15.4.
With three of them there are no particular problems, but with the one I am using now there is a consistent, reproducible error:
When I am installing a number of programs, I normally copy my password when installing the first in the row. Then, it is easy to paste in the same password for each successive installation.
Ok, there is missing data in your question, which I can guess from your posted photo. You are running dolphin, click or right click on an rpm on a directory, and select "install with yast"? Then it asks for root's password? And you repeat this a few more times, each time pasting the password from the first time? Pasting the password works on 3 machines, but not on a forth? Maybe you have a clipboard manager installed or not installed in the fourth, or the clipboard manager has a different setting. I have never done this. I don't like the idea of repeating the command several times. I would open a terminal in that directory, "su" (not "su -"), then use zypper to install a list of rpms in the current dir. I would perhaps use the "mc" file manager. Or I would try to select several rpms at a single time, and see how to install them on a single click or right click with dolphin.
However, with this machine that is impossible. I copy the password, but after I have exited the dialog box the copied password is erased from memory and I have to type the password each time when doing the subsequent installations.
Further; as long as I have the dialog box open the password copied is kept in memory and can be pasted into a document I made to test this, but when I close the dialog box in order to go to Yast2 the password is evidently erased since it then cannot be pasted into the document. It is gone, but on my other machines it is kept in memory and can be pasted into the dialog box.
See the picture in the link below; that is where it happens. What configuration error have I inadvertently made, since the password is not kept in memory on this one machine?
http://www.coldsiberia.net/computer_tests/copy_fails.png
Sincerely, Per Inge Oestmoen, Norway
-- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 15.4 x86_64 at Telcontar)