On Thursday 25 July 2019 08:44:29 Mike Bird wrote:

> On Thu July 25 2019 00:47:10 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > With all the hoorah about tdesu, I just tried it, found it
> > worthless. It asks for the root password on a system that has no
> > root passwd, I do everything that needs root with a sudo.  Sigh.
>
> The TDE frontend to sudo is tdesudo in package tdesudo-trinity.
>
> --Mike
Stretch install, TDE R14-0.latest.

gene@coyote:/etc/cron.daily$ tdesudo synaptic
tdesudo: error while loading shared libraries: libtdecore.so.14: cannot 
open shared object file: No such file or directory
gene@coyote:/etc/cron.daily$

I rest my case, ;-) as neither is usable on a passwd-less root system. 
Called from the menu, it asks for root pw, but a synaptic-pkexec 
properly asks for my pw.

There are several examples of this failure in the tde menus, no way to 
run root requiring stuff from the menu's.  Gets frustrating at times as 
there seems to be no consistency for the cli work-a-round's.  Some need 
a sudo, some need a gksudo. Twould be nice if it was fixed. :)

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