On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, you wrote:
>Stefan van der Eijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> Wow... this is amusing...
>>
>> I want to start DrakConf from my desktop, kdesu starts, I type the root
>> passwd and then a dialog screen comes up explaining that:
>>
>> "The program 'su' is not found!
>> Make sure your PATH is set correctly"
>>
>> Anyone else seen this?
>
>Yes, this has been around for a while but no one fixes it.
>
>Chris, I tried to investigate a little bit but I have only little
>knowledge of KDE. I tried to strace the thingy, my best guess is that it
>does not succeed to exec /usr/bin/konsole_grantpty
>
>Also the message "daemon not launched" at the beginning is not amusing at
>all. I could solve the problem by doing "chmod g+s /usr/bin/kdesud" but
>was no avail for the main problem.
>
>I tried also to chmod +s konsole_granpty but still the there is an
>`operation not permitted':
>
>3924 execve("/usr/bin/konsole_grantpty", ["konsole_grantpty", "--grant"],
> [/* 41 vars */]) = -1 EPERM (Operation not permitted)
>
>I think, from here, it fails.
>
>
>Chris, or David, or another KDE coder :-), can you investigate?
It's exactly as far as I got in a quick investigation, then I reported it to the kdesu
author
(but no answer).
If Chris doesn't find it tomorrow, I'll have another look after him, but I'm
overloaded currently...
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