KDESU not working on OpenSuse 11.2

[67GTA]

The only configuration file for kdesu is in /home/user/.kde4/share/config/kdesurc. Usually nothing but password rules there, but you can check. The kdesu app comes in the kdebase4-runtime package if you want to try reinstalling it. I'm pretty sure that the problem is internal because kdesu is only a gui for su or sudo that temporarily stores your password in memory if you tell it to. Post the contents of your sudoers file. Also check /var/log/messages for kdesu errors.

[upscope]

caf4926 wrote:

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> Works for me
>
> What output do you get in terminal when you do kdesu yast2
>
>
I just noticed if I do kdesu yast2 it works but if I do kdesu yast the
console just hangs after putting in the root password. Since I always
use yast2 I never saw the yast hang until a few minutes ago. Could his
problem be something to do with the link from yast to yast2
(permissions)?


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[mangz74]

I had this problem today and I tried to backtrack what I was doing before I had this problem. I remembered I was customizing my desktop and change the settings for the number of bullets to show when I am putting my password to three dots for every character I put in. I configured it back to default - one dot per character and kdesu yast2 works again. Check it here...

Go to Menu -> Configure Desktop -> General Tab -> About Me. At the bottom, there's options for Password Prompts. Select "Shot one bullet for each letter". That fixed it. Hope it works for everyone too..

[PGPGPG]

Glad that you could remember what you have been doing before. I had the same problem. Would have never thought that the password entry mode had anything to do with that. Your hint helped me to solve my problem too.

Thx

[jideogunmekan]

I had this problem today and I tried to backtrack what I was doing before I had this problem. I remembered I was customizing my desktop and change the settings for the number of bullets to show when I am putting my password to three dots for every character I put in. I configured it back to default - one dot per character and kdesu yast2 works again. Check it here...

Go to Menu -> Configure Desktop -> General Tab -> About Me. At the bottom, there's options for Password Prompts. Select "Shot one bullet for each letter". That fixed it. Hope it works for everyone too..

I know this is an old thread. Had the problem just now and the above solved it for me. Thanks

[DenverD]

On 04/03/2013 10:06 AM, jideogunmekan wrote:
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> I know this is an old thread. Had the problem just now and the above
> solved it for me. Thanks

if you have not moved that old (VERY old) version into Evergreen then
you really should do that right away....because the non-Evergreen
openSUSE 11.2 has received *no* security updates since May 2011
[cite: https://en.opensuse.org/Lifetime] and it contains *many*
publically known security vulnerabilities...

personally i would either make sure the machine is never connect to
any network (especially not the internet) *or* i never used it for
things like banking, online purchases, etc etc etc

those security hole can be patched with Evergreen, until November of
this year, see http://tinyurl.com/4aflkpy for details..

and, begin plans to move to a supported version, before then.

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