On Thursday 31 December 2015 16.49:38 Greg Madden wrote:
> > Thierry
>
> tdesu is a graphical frontend to  'su', root privledges, afaik uses the
> root password,

Yes, and it works that way. Launching any program with "tdesu <program name>" 
takes the root password and runs the program with root privileges.

> This os different that the 'sudo' related TDE stuff, sudo et 
> al uses the users password.The user has to be in the sudo group to work. No
> separate sudo password.
>
> Your second png shows tdesudo being installed,  all the TDE sudo packages
> depend on 'sudo', should be installed I 'am thinking, add users to the
> 'sudo' group.

tdesudo is _not_ installed (at least synaptic does not list it as installed)

> I would be supspicious of Gnome stuff, is gksu installed?

No, not installed either.

> another way to manage sudo users is with 'visudo' as root.

Adding my user to the sudo group (with kuser), the user password works in 
kpackage.

I think this is logical, as visudo shows:

# User privilege specification
root    ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL

# Allow members of group sudo to execute any command
%sudo   ALL=(ALL:ALL) ALL


But what is not logical is that kpackage expects a sudo password when tdesudo 
is not installed. I thought  not installing sudo meant using the root 
password. Debain was not installed with sudo, so why is it working?

Thierry