On Thursday 31 December 2015 13.44:14 kanenas@... wrote: > have you tried adding a sudo password and using it, at least as a > workaround > > d. No, IMHO it would be too messy: I would have a user password, a sudo password, a root password. I don't like sudo because I don't see the limits between user and root, to me it's a bad solution (but I don't want to start yet another sudo vs root discussion). Starting the programs with tdesu is OK, it's clear that you are root and they work perfectly this way. I will check if addding my user to the sudo group helps, but I am definitely not going to use sudo. Thanks for the suggestion however. Note: of course I could give the same password everywhere :) It's not really a joke, as that's what openSuSE's install proposes (to use the user password for root). How they came to that idea I don't know. Thierry