On 18/06/17 20:14, Anton Aylward wrote:
My 'regular' tabs start with "bash -l" so i have to enter my GPG-agent pass-phrases for each. My root shell is there asking for a password.
My tabs - all of them - start however konsole does it. Whatever the default is. I've done nothing special - nothing at all to the best of my memory.
The restored root tab asks for the password.
I don't have - again, never have, iirc - a root tab.
Unlike you I don't believe that somehow bypassing the root password to access root privileges is a Good Thing. The tab is there. If and when, which is not every day, I need a root shell, it is there.
Nor do I. If I need root privileges, I take an existing tab, do a "su" (which asks me for the password), and either exit when I'm finished, or expect it to disappear on logout.
I've tried, Patrick has tried, to get over the idea of a root login being different from a change in the effective UID with a simplistic "su".
I don't understand your point. I *ONLY* *EVER* use "su". *My* behaviour is consistent. Linux' response is not. (I do understand the difference, I just can't see why it has any bearing on why linux is being inconsistent.) To repeat - if konsole is open when I log out, it is restored when I log back in. That much is consistent, and hunky dory. If one of the tabs was changed to root, by using su, after a logout/login the system *sometimes but not always* asks me for the root password, then if I give it the password it does nothing - at least as far as I can see - with it. If the system asked me for the root password last time I logged in, it *sometimes but not always* asks me the next time, with the same results. It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest if KDE is messing up saving my state, but the point is KDE/konsole is behaving in an inconsistent and nonsensical manner. In other words, be it design error, programming error, hardware error (always a possibility!) - *something* is not right. Cheers, Wol -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org