On Thursday 24 August 2006 22:01, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 25 August 2006 06:57, John Andersen wrote:
Somewhere after the last update, kdesu will not accept my root password anymore, such as when I want to run Yast. (OpenSUSE 10.1 KDE 3.5.4(a))
If I open a shell, I can su to root with that password with no problem. So the password is good, but any attempt to use it in the pop-up that KDE puts up results in bad password?
What's up with that? Is this a known bug? Worked till last week.
One likely reason is that /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass is no longer suid. If you do an ls -l on it, it should look like
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root shadow 12184 2006-05-30 23:33 /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass
Nope, but that is certainly something I would not have checked myself.... Mine is dated a tad later, but still suid: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root shadow 18127 2006-07-09 16:28 /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass Thx -- _____________________________________ John Andersen