On Thu, 2007-01-25 at 20:33 +0100, Paul Ollion wrote: > Hello list > I have a problem with kde on my new SuSE 10.2. It worked during the first > days after install, and this curious behaviour appeared after an upgrade : > whenever I try to launch yast2, or the file manager in superuser mode I give > the root password and get a message saying it is a wrong password. > > It must be a kde problem : I can open a console, su to root and launch these > services manually. The root password is good. > Here is one the messages I get after each failure > > atelier : Jan 25 12:00:09 : paulus : user NOT in sudoers ; TTY=pts/3 ; > PWD=/home/paulus ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/opt/kde3/bin/kdesu_stub - > > I searched the archives and found an old trick from Sept 12 2004. > message id :<200409122304.41133 > It said go to the console, log in as root, run init 3, remove the > directory /var/tmp/kdecache-root and rename the /root/kde folder, then run > init 5 and log in normally. > I just renamed these directories, but it does not work. Could anyone > enlighten > me ? > -- > Paul Ollion > Proud Linux user SuSE 10.2
Looks like your sudoers file is corrupted. This happened to me after installing SMB4K on a PC. You will need to use visudo to fix it. In my case the commented sections got uncommented. HTH James -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
