Le Thursday 15 May 2008 03:04:50 Lucky Leavell, vous avez écrit :

OS: OpenSuSE 10.3

When I try to invoke YaST from KDE as a non-root user, it prompts me for the root password but always says it is incorrect but I can bring up a terminal screen, su - and it accepts the same password just fine OR I can swithc to a character screen and login as root just fine using the same password. What causes this strange behavior (which I have not experienced from SuSE 9.0 until 10.3)? What can I do about it?

Thank you, Lucky Leavell

Hi, I observed long time ago that keyboard map could be set differently on the X server and on VT or terminal under X. Dont know if its still true (was during the XFree era). Did you check that ? This could explain why a password is correct on a terminal and not on a log window. Cheers Matthias -- __________________________________________________________                      Matthias Titeux, PhD Département de génétique des maladies cutanées et allergiques             dans des modèles animaux et chez l'homme.                       INSERM U563 - CPTP                  Pavillon Lefebvre, 5ème étage                           CHU Purpan                             BP3028                     31024 Toulouse cedex 03 __________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On 15/05/2008, Lucky Leavell wrote:

OS: OpenSuSE 10.3

When I try to invoke YaST from KDE as a non-root user, it prompts me for the root password but always says it is incorrect but I can bring up a terminal screen, su - and it accepts the same password just fine OR I can swithc to a character screen and login as root just fine using the same password. What causes this strange behavior (which I have not experienced from SuSE 9.0 until 10.3)? What can I do about it?

This could happen if you use the unpatched sudo module in YaST which had a bug at release whereby it would no longer work with the target password. You could try the following command which would switch kdesu to use su instead of sudo and see if it rectifies the problem: kwriteconfig --file kdesurc --group super-user-command --key super-user-command su -- Benjamin Weber -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org