On Sunday 05 May 2019 07:55:30 am Thierry de Coulon wrote:

> On Sunday 05 May 2019 13.38:52 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings;
> >
> > Synaptic seems to want a root pw in its run requestor, but root
> > doesn't have pw, everything is done with sudo or sudo-like such as
> > gksudo.
> >
> > How can I fix the for tde so its happy with the sudo pw?
>
> On Debian I must edit the menu to run "tdesu synaptic". There is
> a "tdesudo-trinity" showing in synaptic, so I would guess "tdesudo
> synaptic" should do the trick.
>
Wrong unforch, it still insists on a nonexistant root pw.  Mine as first 
and only human user, doesn't satisfy it.

> Can't see what sudo brings over su however, as anyone getting your
> sudo password just has to sudo passwd root to create a root password.
>
> Regards,

I don't get it all that well either, but thats how debian has done it for 
about a decade now.

> Thierry

Thanks Thierry, Gene