On Thursday 23 Dec 2010 00:53:35 Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* ritchie [12-22-10 19:49]:

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I was careless recently. I needed to install some software for my daughter, and when she was logged in I ran Yast, up popped Kdesu (as normal) I typed the root password and pressed OK. To my horror, after I pressed the OK button, I noticed that the "Save Password" check box was checked. Doh!

My 12 year old daughter can now run yast at any time without entering a password. Obviously I feel like a right knob for not being more alert and causing this less than ideal situation.

I have been unable to find the solution to "How to I get kdesu to 'forget' the password?"

aaah, type "kdesu" from a non-root prompt and remove the checkmark before entering a command, ie yast2.

Hi Patrick, running kdesu alone just complains... ritchie@linuxbox:~> kdesu kdesu: No command specified. kdesu: Use --help to get a list of available command line options. OK... looking at kdesu --help gives me... Options: -n Do not keep password ritchie@linuxbox:~> kdesu -n yast2 kdesu opens with "remember password" unchecked. Good. Typed root password started and closed yast2. ritchie@linuxbox:~> kdesu yast2 Success password request dialogue appears. :-) Thank you for putting me on the right path. Regards Ritchie -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org