Ubuntu & Linspire
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Feb 9 14:12:48 UTC 2007
Scott Mazur wrote:
> I agree (or have no opinion) about everything you've said up to this
> point. It's true Kubuntu doesn't prevent you from setting a root password
> (I've done
> so myself, becuase that's just the kind of user I am). But it's not true
> there are no consequences to this. Every (and I mean EVERY) configurable
> option in KDE that needs admin rights prompts for a password. Out of the
> box that's fine (whether you agree it should be any old user password or
> root
> only). But once you set a root password none of the KDE password prompts
> work. Regardless of the password you type in (root or user) it's wrong
> and
> does not authenticate. So by setting a root password you are forced to
> login as root to make admin changes for ever more.
I don't know what you've done, but that's not true. I have a root password
and all of my kdesu, sudo and gksu prompts work fine. Good thing too,
since I have never figured out (or cared to) how to enable root to log in
to KDE.
> And it's damned annoying
> being prompted for a password in KDE when you know darned well it's not
> going to work. It shouldn't have to be that way.
It isn't.
--
derek
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