Re: "conversation with su failed" in KDE
On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Richard Toohey wrote: > For the archives, I encountered the same thing. > /usr/local/share/config/kdesurc > > # $OpenBSD: kdesurc,v 1.1 2007/10/06 22:46:04 ajacoutot Exp $ > # > # This file specifies the backend to get superuser privileges > # sudo or su > # > > [super-user-command] > super-user-command=sudo > > Not sure if the right thing to do, but I changed the "sudo" in the last line > to "su" > and it worked for me. It all depends how you superuser granting priviledges are configured. Under OpenBSD we like sudo better. If your user has sudo proviledges configured, then it should work... at least it does here. -- Antoine
Re: "conversation with su failed" in KDE
On 19/11/2008, at 5:22 PM, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mark Beihoffer wrote: Hello, I'm working on my laptop with OpenBSD 4.4 and am quite pleased with it thus far. However, I am having trouble with KDE, specifically accessing administrator mode in many of the Control Center dialogs. It prompts me for my password, but no matter whether I type the root password or the password for my normal user account I get the error message "conversation with su failed", and it won't let me do such things as add printers, change the screen resolution, etc. [cut] What is the content of: /usr/local/share/config/kdesurc -- Antoine For the archives, I encountered the same thing. /usr/local/share/ config/kdesurc # $OpenBSD: kdesurc,v 1.1 2007/10/06 22:46:04 ajacoutot Exp $ # # This file specifies the backend to get superuser privileges # sudo or su # [super-user-command] super-user-command=sudo Not sure if the right thing to do, but I changed the "sudo" in the last line to "su" and it worked for me. Thanks.
Re: "conversation with su failed" in KDE
On Tue, 18 Nov 2008, Mark Beihoffer wrote: > Hello, > > I'm working on my laptop with OpenBSD 4.4 and am quite pleased with it thus > far. > > However, I am having trouble with KDE, specifically accessing administrator > mode in many of the Control Center dialogs. > > It prompts me for my password, but no matter whether I type the root > password or the password for my normal user account I get the error message > "conversation with su failed", and it won't let me do such things as add > printers, change the screen resolution, etc. > > I have searched high and low for a solution to this before consulting the > list; is there anyone who has encountered similar issues and have > successfully resolved this issue? > > I can't be the only OpenBSD user using KDE who has run into this problem. > ;-) What is the content of: /usr/local/share/config/kdesurc -- Antoine
"conversation with su failed" in KDE
Hello, I'm working on my laptop with OpenBSD 4.4 and am quite pleased with it thus far. However, I am having trouble with KDE, specifically accessing administrator mode in many of the Control Center dialogs. It prompts me for my password, but no matter whether I type the root password or the password for my normal user account I get the error message "conversation with su failed", and it won't let me do such things as add printers, change the screen resolution, etc. I have searched high and low for a solution to this before consulting the list; is there anyone who has encountered similar issues and have successfully resolved this issue? I can't be the only OpenBSD user using KDE who has run into this problem. ;-) - Mark Beihoffer http://mark.beihoffer.com
