On Tue, 06 Jul 1999, Axalon wrote:
> It is intentional, confuses people who like to stare over shoulders
KDESU is messed up for me as well (even right after doing a fresh install, with
or without all of the updated packages). I know the password part isn't the
problem; what happens to me is that, after typing in my password, nothing
happens, even though I know I'm using it with a command that should work.
Meanwhile, gsu works just fine for me.
If I try kdesu in an xterm, it looks like this:
[hawk3 : ~]$ kdesu -c linuxconf
Password: An error occured: Coockie for this display not found
I get that error message no matter what program I try running. Any idea what
would cause that?
> On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Irv Mullins wrote:
>
> >
> > Does anyone know why, when you try to use
> > terminal (super user, kdesu) you get a password dialog,
> > in which every key pressed is echoed three times?
> >
> > Example: if root password were pig, you would type
> > pig, and see echoed: ********* (9 starz)
> > and an invalid password message. Of course it's invalid,
> > there are three times as many characters as you typed in.
> > This makes kdesu unusable.
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Irv
The problem probably isn't related to each keypress showing three asterisks, as
Axalon said. Maybe your problem is similar to mine, which I explained above.
However, gsu (Gnome's equivalent to kdesu) works just fine and accomplishes the
same thing. You should have it installed and working if you have Gnome
installed (though it works just as well in KDE, you only need Gnome to be
installed).
-Tom
