On Saturday 23 Oct 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Terry,
>
> > How do I get gksu to do a sudo instead of a su, and why is it
> > different on two apparently idenical installations?
>
> You could see if this command gives different output between the two
> machines.
>
> $ gconftool -g /apps/gksu/sudo-mode
> true
> $
My machine returned 'true' and his returned 'false'. I set the value to
'true' using the command:
gconftool --type=bool --set /apps/gksu/sudo-mode true
and the command gconftool -g /apps/gksu/sudo-mode returned 'true'.
Great I thought. Well no:
1. gksu now asked the right question, accepted his password, but Samba didn't
launch.
2. kdesu seemed to be broken; it accepted his password, but threw up a number
of error dialogues complaing about no command arguments.
3. I tried creating an account for myself, but the dialogue box that pops up
to enforce the password change at first login wouldn't accept any characters.
I reverted to sudo-mode false and 1 & 2 were fixed. However, I still can't
login myself.
Any thought before I trash the whole thing and reinstall from scratch? There
is clearly something fundamentally wrong with user configuration/permissions,
but unless I can sort it out, using his machine will be a pain.
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Terry Coles
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