Root password no good in KDE anymore?
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. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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.
Works fine here, John. Cheers. -- This computer is environment-friendly and is running on OpenSuSE 10.1
On Aug 25, 2006, at 12:57 AM, 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.
Now see... when it happened to me on older versions I thought I was nuts. The only difference is mine didn't work with su. It was easier for me to first reinstall... it started for me with 9.0, then 9.1. I don't remember if it happened with 10.0. I've never used 10.1. But, I always ran KDE. I thought I was loosen my marbles. I started making it something very easy and writing it down on a post it and sticking it on the box. (internal file server so not a huge security risk) It would still "lose" root password. I never did figure it out. If you do, post it here or to me directly, please? Thanks, George
On Thursday 24 August 2006 20:57, 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.
I did find this: http://dot.kde.org/1143563634/1143928007/1144038520/ -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
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 note the s in the 4th position. If it isn't suid, it can't read the password database to verify the password. If this is the reason, fix it by doing chmod u+s /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass Then of course you'll have to figure out why it was changed in the first place, to make sure it doesn't happen again. Did you for example change the security setting in YaST? Check /etc/permissions.<your security level> to make sure kcheckpass is in there and has the suid bit listed as set
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
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, John Andersen
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))
That's the same version as 10.2alpha3.
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.
Okay, one quick test later, the same problem shows up in 10.2alpha3 so it looks like the problem is specifically with that KDE version[0]. A quick search of Bugzilla doesn't show an open bug for this so I've added one[1]. <Snip>
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
The one on alpha3 is dated a little later still, a little smaller, and also suid: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root shadow 12274 2006-08-07 17:42 /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass The one I have on 10.1, KDE 3.5.1a, is the same as Anders: -rwsr-xr-x 1 root shadow 12184 2006-05-30 22:33 /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass [0] 10.2alpha2 was using KDE 3.5.3. [1] URL:https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=201717 Regards, David Bolt -- Member of Team Acorn checking nodes at 50 Mnodes/s: http://www.distributed.net/ AMD1800 1Gb WinXP/SUSE 9.3 | AMD2400 256Mb SuSE 9.0 | A3010 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2400(32) 768Mb SUSE 10.0 | Falcon 14Mb TOS 4.02 | A4000 4Mb RISCOS 3.11 AMD2600(64) 512Mb SUSE 10.0 | | RPC600 129Mb RISCOS 3.6
On Friday 25 August 2006 02:09, David Bolt wrote:
The one I have on 10.1, KDE 3.5.1a, is the same as Anders:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root shadow 12184 2006-05-30 22:33 /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass
Anders: can you confirm that your KDE has NOT been upgraded to KDE 3.5.4(a)? BTW, mine was upgraded using Yast from OpenSUSE mirrors. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Friday 25 August 2006 15:07, John Andersen wrote:
On Friday 25 August 2006 02:09, David Bolt wrote:
The one I have on 10.1, KDE 3.5.1a, is the same as Anders:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root shadow 12184 2006-05-30 22:33 /opt/kde3/bin/kcheckpass
Anders: can you confirm that your KDE has NOT been upgraded to KDE 3.5.4(a)?
The same exact thing happened to me after upgrading to KDE 3.5.4(a) I then opened a console to do what I needed to do and it worked that way. Tried again later using the KDE popup and it didn't work. Was late, just shrugged my shoulders and turned my machine down for the night. When I booted up the next day it worked fine. Naybe needs an X restart??? Who knows about some of these things?? Bob S.
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