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Yeah, this isn't a real reply, but I can't figure out how to request the original message from the mail server to reply to, etc. etc. Anyway, I was having the problem with getting SSL to work on my SuSE 9.1 apache2 install where it says "Server should be SSL-aware but has no certificate configured". After stumbling onto this list and not finding an answer that was acceptable (reinstall? This isn't windows...), I finally figured it out. YaST puts some stuff at the end of default-server.conf when you enable SSL, including a line that says SSLEngine on. That's fine if you're using SSL for all the servers, but doesn't work when you want some virtual servers with SSL and some without, and it just doesn't work following the quickstart directions. The fix? Remove the "SSLEngine on" directive that YaST put on the end of default-server.conf. Then, don't use YaST to enable ssl in apache2, since it'll probably just put that line back in. :) I'm not sure what SuSE oughtta do for the next release - probably just leave that feature out and email a message suggesting that the admin read QUICKSTART.SSL to finish configuration. --Danny
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Have a problem switching to root from normal KDE. Am Running SuSE 9.1 and generally works well. From the normal user I sometimes need to change to root to install software etc. So, I 'switch user' from the KDE menu. Instead of getting the root screen I get YAST appearing. It used to 'switch' to root and I don't know of anything that has changed recently. Any ideas someone please..... Phill
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Phillip wrote regarding '[SLE] root screen doesnt appear when I switch to root in KDE' on Thu, Jul 29 at 01:57:
Have a problem switching to root from normal KDE.
Am Running SuSE 9.1 and generally works well. From the normal user I sometimes need to change to root to install software etc. So, I 'switch user' from the KDE menu. Instead of getting the root screen I get YAST appearing. It used to 'switch' to root and I don't know of anything that has changed recently. Any ideas someone please.....
I don't suppose that your last session logging in from kdm as root was the "admin" session, was it? I'm pretty sure that it uses the last session type that you logged in under. Select "kde" as the session type, and log in as root. Then log out, log in as your normal user, and try the switch user thing. That may work better... --Danny
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Danny, That was brilliant!! Just what I had missed. It now 'switches' to root just as it used to. Many thanks Phillip On Thursday 29 July 2004 14:47, Danny Sauer wrote:
Phillip wrote regarding '[SLE] root screen doesnt appear when I switch to root in KDE' on Thu, Jul 29 at 01:57:
Have a problem switching to root from normal KDE.
Am Running SuSE 9.1 and generally works well. From the normal user I sometimes need to change to root to install software etc. So, I 'switch user' from the KDE menu. Instead of getting the root screen I get YAST appearing. It used to 'switch' to root and I don't know of anything that has changed recently. Any ideas someone please.....
I don't suppose that your last session logging in from kdm as root was the "admin" session, was it? I'm pretty sure that it uses the last session type that you logged in under. Select "kde" as the session type, and log in as root. Then log out, log in as your normal user, and try the switch user thing. That may work better...
--Danny
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In a previous message, Phillip Virdi-Smith
From the normal user I sometimes need to change to root to install software etc.
You don't actually need to log in as root to install software (or, indeed, to do anything else). To install software, as you norma user you can run KPackage (or your preferred install tool). The software knows that it needs root privileges to install software and will ask for the password when needed. To configure the PC, run YaST - this will ask for the root password before running so that it can configure admin-only parts of the system. To do root stuff from the command line, use 'su' or 'sux' (for running X apps). All this makes life much safer, because it minimises the chances of something going wrong and breaking your system. KDE (and any other GUI) does lots of things that don't need root access, and have the potential to do harm if they go wrong. It's also faster than logging in a whole KDE session. HTH John -- John Pettigrew Headstrong Games john@headstrong-games.co.uk Fun : Strategy : Price http://www.headstrong-games.co.uk/ Board games that won't break the bank Valley of the Kings: ransack an ancient Egyptian tomb but beware of mummies!
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