lost su in KDE [Resolved]

[bluesdog]

Password is ok
.. I can login to CLI as root
.. I can su to root in a terminal under KDE
.. I can su to root in Gnome apps
.. I can use the xhost command to enable root access to xserver, then launch kde apps from terminal.
But, any KDE app requiring su to root, such as synaptic package manager, returns an error:
Incorrect password; please try again.Something is mis-configured... I just don't know what to look for :confused:

This just happened following an upgraded kdelibs, and a host of other kde stuff, from version 4:3.5.4-1 to 4:3.5.5-1
I can provide a complete list if required

[Lavene]

I don't remember exactly but there were a bug (or a deliberate change that went sour) with 'kdesu' in one of the latest upgrades of kdebase. I believe it suddenly started to use sudo instead of su or something. So a workaround would be to edit 'sudoers' I guess

As I said, this is just from memory but I'm sure you can find more acurate information in the BTS or just by googleing.

Tina

[bluesdog]

:)Thanks for the reply, Tina

Yeah, it seemed to be something weird with the way kdesu handled the password checking.

Feeling adventurous, I updated kdebase and one or two other core kde things to the latest unstable, and that seemed to fix it.

It would be nice to know exactly what was going on

btw, I did try to find mention of this in the Bug Tracking System, and Google only came up with some archaic stuff which seemed irrelevant.

[Lavene]

I found it, it's bug #393041 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=393041)

Here is the thread at Debian User Forums (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=9475) where I first learned about it.

Tina :)