On 01/23/2015 12:17 PM, Istvan Gabor wrote:
John Andersen írta:
On 01/22/2015 03:34 PM, Istvan Gabor wrote:
Hello:
This is in openSUSE 13.2 with its default KDE4 (4.14.3).
I want to configure the login manager (KDM). I start it from Configure Desktop -> System Administration -> Login Screen. It doesn't ask for root password. OK. I change a setting and try to save by clicking "Apply". Now it asks for root password. I fill it and the change is applied. I change another thing, "Apply" again. Is asks for root password again. And it goes on like this. Every time I click "Apply" it asks for the root password. This is very annoying. In KDE3 it was sufficient to enter root passord only once to enter administrator mode and after that you could make and apply as many changes as you wanted without entering the root password again in that session. What is the rationale behind this new "feature"? Is there any way to set back the KDE3 behavior?
Thanks,
Istvan
There is a check box that says Remember Password when it first asks root's password.
I don't want that.
But don't get your hopes up. It doesn't seem to work.
I don't want to try because I don't know how to make KDE4 forget my password if it still remembers.
Any time the apply button shows up with a KEY icon on it you are going to have to enter root's password again. Its been this way for quite a while. Very annoying.
Just imagine that you open a terminal window and you su to get root. And after it every time when you apply a command the system asks for the root password. If it happened how many would complain and say it's a nonsense? But because this is KDE4, it's considered an enhanced feature and must be greeted. Those who complain are trolls, retrograde etc.
Thanks for your answer.
Just as with yast, everything in systemsettings is addressable directly. Don't ask me for specifics, I don't now them all! But there is a kde utility that lets you invoke any of the /usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_<something>.so files or whatever they are, directly from the command line, without going though all that GUI and the popup. You can 'look under the hood' using # rpm -ql $(rpm -qf /usr/bin/systemsettings) So you can do this all directly with "sudo' Someone more informed about the innards than I am can tell you what those are. Or spend time investigating & experimenting. I can imagine that you could even set up icons on your screen or menu that fire off the appropriate Dot-desktops files :-) -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org