-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 12/30/2015 10:40 PM, Thierry de Coulon wrote: > On Wednesday 30 December 2015 19.59:42 Michele Calgaro wrote: (...) >>> Now I've got a small problem with superuser rights with some programs. Until now kpackage-trinity and >>> Gostcrypt have shown this behaviour: >>> >>> - if I start the program (from TDE), at some point it will ask for the password. Neither the root password nor >>> the user password work. >>> >>> - if I modify the program "icon" by adding "tdesu" before the command, the password is asked first, and the >>> program works correctly. > (...) >>> Thierry >> >> Hi Thierry, I tried to reproduce the problem on my system but I didn't see anything wrong. But maybe I was doing >> something different from you. Could you file a bug report with detail instructions on how to reproduce the post? >> Some screenshots would also be useful . Thanks Michele > > OK, I once again forgot to link the pictures... :) > > Hi Michele, > > Not so easy... There's not much showing. > > With kpackage, I get the same behaviour wether I start kpackage (from the TDE/kicker menu) or by right-clicking on > the *.deb file and choosing "open with": > > kpackage opens, I choose install, kpackage asks for the password (snapshot 1). Maybe a clue? It asks for the SUDO > password - I have no sudo password. Neither the root nor the user password work. The dialog box disappears, then > comes back, and so on. > > If I modify the menu command in "tdesu kpackage", kpackage works (albeit I get a "tdeinit could not start tdesu" > message...). > > I tried starting kpackage from the command line but all I get is: > > thierry@haswell:~$ kpackage TQSettings::sync: failed to open '/etc/tqt3/tqt_plugins_3.5rc.tmp' for writing TQLayout > "unnamed" added to TQVBox "page", which already has a layout thierry@haswell:~$ ^C thierry@haswell:~$ > > No idea if this tells you something... > > Gostcrypt shows a similar behaviour, but with no message at all. I can select the crypted partition, but when I > want to mount it this requires the root password, which is not taken, so of course gostcrypt does not get the > superuser rights (snapshot 2). tdesu gostcrypt works perfectly, so this is not really a problem. > > I also need tdesu to start synaptic, but this is more to get a nice dialog box (otherwise some text window is used > to ask for the root password. > > Thank you, > > Thierry > > Hi Thierry, I tried the same operation on my system (Debian/Stretch) and did not have any problem, after typing the root password I could install a package and also remove it. Obviously there must be some differences somewhere, so I have file bug report 2570 so we don't forget about it. Cheers and Happy New Year to all users. Michele -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJWhTr9AAoJECp1t8qK3tXPAlsP+gKGmPQR/iSo8WTvnxABrT7p NgAzNy5hEg0BObb6yQ8kwO5RohlyS+ogjObEvMoex9Hgmcc4eRbNJzAPW2NSeFHT mmX3x035QXRv6IcBrK4thYdBF7pPjL0yJ4igplILTyhE9h1RNfnmIKAnEGLbgYac OZPYoK676QtetWq1lRqVgu1QOtBCH9EUoDzLx9I3TOaw9yOYTi3s9hOU2Tu6HVgc F5OxVR8FphIwRT32jK1brkwXmTj8g5P+RVegf7RnXoblTdvRH+NlxLwpdWbo/c07 UWYgYHzm5Uc1AfX2iQVlSFA5jD2E2OHvlmG9pMQQkcqprONmhzEIi5J9H6w09P9v 8JkyUjvrcxqSXdW1UX+3gtzOwuh0rqeE0xhzlG12WbCOrc21kv8Y7chl4EC1AeZ6 Za0hTm/kfMOf1i0LJYntfeZo4s7C79xVABP/X14YwKt3izEZMuApTNpAr0eN/wGn PFhPYOYLcY6QfUOL59htWpBuRIjTBrSvbKmTXi1IZH5h6ZodJtbrlQ0ZyE1YJW+7 noCEiBQIulyV+kyfQkF5HDFzf1pPW8xVmRw42aEod/UbcoIGB7yH55ZfUlP+Tq1s LyzZbM5oeHQuZ9n1eIwdaJ0z2Am9n/aCyiWzGrTjnD+Qhf+tK8pB3RsfXLJmCGs1 +IJQIpmGmArGYikr8TD6 =k+18 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----