Ok guys, mines posibly a little more broken then the rest at the moment,
consider it noted, and in the mean time "su -c linuxconf" does work
from the terminal, kfmsu/kfmsu2 may be used also they will popup a new
kfm window selecting open terminal from it runs a root login, as noted
gsu also functions if you want to "alt-F2 gsu -c linuxconf" or what not,
so your not stuck haveing to su from a terminal.
On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Thomas J. Hamman wrote:
> 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
>
