> Le jeudi 21 juin 2012, Marc Chénier a écrit : >> Le jeudi 21 juin 2012, Slávek Banko a écrit : >> >> > > Slávek Banko wrote: >> > >> > Ha, I not thought that KDE4 applications could have a version number >> 3.x. >> > Yes, it seems to me that the problem is probably elsewhere. >> >> Hi, >> >> I would just like to point out that the problem is only with kdesudo, >> and not with sudo. It is as if kdesudo does not know where to look to >> check my password. As you have certainly noticed, my knowledge of >> informatics is minimal. I get along as long as things are >> straightforward and simple. Oneiric TDE is my main system for all my >> private files and professional work, so I need it to work... >> I did not manage to remove the (non-trinity) kdesudo package because of >> dependencies, but i renamed it old_kdesu. >> > >> > How do you set /etc/sudoers (or /etc/sudoers.d/)? On the test machine >> I have >> > my account in the group "sudo", and there to me it works. >> > >> > Slavek >> >> I did not set anything in those files. I am the only user (marco) on my >> linux machine. >> >> The etc/sudoers.d directory contains only the standard README file. >> >> Here are the contents of the /etc/sudoers file : >> >> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> marco@Blacknight:/etc$ sudo cat sudoers >> [sudo] password for marco: >> # >> # This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root. >> # >> # Please consider adding local content in /etc/sudoers.d/ instead of >> # directly modifying this file. >> # >> # See the man page for details on how to write a sudoers file. >> # >> Defaults env_reset >> >> # Host alias specification >> >> # User alias specification >> >> # Cmnd alias specification >> >> # User privilege specification >> root ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL >> >> # Members of the admin group may gain root privileges >> %admin ALL=(ALL) ALL >> >> # Allow members of group sudo to execute any command >> %sudo ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL >> >> #includedir /etc/sudoers.d >> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >> >> >> If i need to do something to this file, please be specific. >> >> Thanks again >> >> Marco >> >> >> > > I used the 'usermod' command to add sudo to the groups that belong to user > marco. I checked with the command 'id' : it shows user marco as part of > the admin and sudo groups. > > But when asked for my password by a kde application in a Kdesudo window, I > still get bumped after 3 tries with the message 'Wrong password. Exiting'. > Any clues? > > Marco The only thing I can think of off the top of my head is that perhaps tdesu, not tdesudo, is executing. There was a problem with an incorrect message string in tdesu where it was prompting for the user's password but actually expected the root password; this has been fixed in GIT but has not been repaired in 3.5.13 AFAIK. Tim