Hello, I have been struggling to make kdesu work as it is meant to, and was wondering if anyone has managed to get it to work.
I have done a lot of research on the net and there are numerous people who have had, and currently have issues with it, but no solution has worked for me. When you alt+f2 and type in kdesu systemsettings you get the expected password prompt for root user, then nothing happens. Try kdesu dolphin and again nothing happens. I am running a SYSTEMD system, and kdesud is running. One solution that worked for people running debian,ubuntu and redhat was to install system alternatives and to create a kdesurc file and adding the command for sudo instead. I have installed system alternatives in the hope that it may work. It doesn't. All you get is a blank box and no option to create the elevated user as per their instructions. I have tested with a newly created account and it shows exactly the same results. I know I can just open a terminal and su to root normally, but some things need the gui version of su. They have managed to lock KDE down so that root can not login even after you have changed the kdmrc to allow it. You get a password incorrect. I did a nasty sort of a work around to make X run as root and was able to access kde after invoking startx on the command line. I then proceeded to use kdepasswd and entered the password and still it just refuses to login. I know the risks of running a gui as root, but I am not a novice on linux/unix machines. Not that I want to change many things through the gui, but things like kwallet do need to be tweaked via the gui. It would be nice to have a tool work as it is meant to. Regards, Christopher -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
