On Thursday 17 November 2016 22:02:43 Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 17 November 2016 21:45:00 Gene Heskett wrote: > > Greetings arm experts; > > > > Raspian has a showstopper in its package management dept. > > > > 1. In spite of being able to do about 99% of the stuff with sudo, > > over an ssh -Y login, there is one glaring omission. There is no > > reason even when X is not running, why I shouldn't be able to run > > synaptic-pkexec with it exporting the gui window to what ever > > machine I am logged into it from. > > > > Except its asking for the root pw, and root doesn't have one. > > > > Sudo bash gets me root, but then root can't open the display, so I > > am stuck with the text based apt. > > > > Does anyone have a suggestion for a fix? Having a gui to manage > > packages makes it a heck of a lot easier to do. > > I may have convinced google to spit out a tut on this. > > <http://vicpimakers.ca/tutorials/raspbian/change-the-raspbian-root-pas >sword/> > > I'll give it a shot tomorrow. > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett
So much for that little trip around the briarpatch. I still cannot execute synaptic. ---------------------------------snipped from my screen---------- gene@raspberrypi:/etc $ sudo passwd root Enter new UNIX password: Retype new UNIX password: passwd: password updated successfully gene@raspberrypi:/etc $ synaptic-pkexec ==== AUTHENTICATING FOR com.ubuntu.pkexec.synaptic === Authentication is required to run the Synaptic Package Manager Authenticating as: root Password: polkit-agent-helper-1: error response to PolicyKit daemon: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: No session for cookie ==== AUTHENTICATION FAILED === Error executing command as another user: Not authorized This incident has been reported. ------------------------------------ However, this error return is different from a failed pw attempt. This works perfectly on 4 other x86 based machines here, why the heck can't I do it on the pi's? Thanks for any clues from pi users. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-developers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-developers
