On Friday 27 February 2015 10:54:29 Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 27 February 2015 15:42:39 Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Friday 27 February 2015 09:01:53 Lisi Reisz wrote: > > > On Friday 27 February 2015 13:24:21 Uwe Brauer wrote: > > > > >> "Dave" == Dave Lers <lists@...> writes: > > > > > Dan Youngquist wrote: > > > > >> On 02/26/2015 03:22 AM, Uwe Brauer wrote: > > > > >> > > > > >> However I opened the control center and I cannot find the user > > > > >> administration tool and am familiar with. Is this included any new > > > > >> package? > > > > >> > > > > >> Is it kuser you're looking for? I think you have to install it > > > > > > > > > > System > User Manager (KUser), default r14 on Wheezy. > > > > > > > > And what is with the old one I posted a screenshot of? > > > > > > I think that that is basically an Ubuntu programme. Perhaps it uis in > > > Synaptic, if it is no longet there by default. > > > > > > Lisi > > > > Lisi; I ran into something else last night using that admin utility. I > > use sudo for all the root stuff and have never even set a root password. > > > > This is a more of less default wheezy install, and uses sudo for all that > > stuff. > > No, Gene, it isn't. You installed that cnc or something special version. > > > The password for "admin", eg root, tasks does not accept the users sudo > > password, asking for the (root? it doesn't say) password in a forever > > loop. This is a bug. I suspect its TDE wide in effect. And should be > > filed. > > No, it isn't a bug. Just set up a root password. Most of us using Debian > (not all, I agree) have one. Google "ubuntu set root password". > > > I can generally hack around it with a sudo -i session of geany, (never > > gedit as it can trash, BTDT, several times, your whole system,) but find > > that it also does not work because the root acquired in that manner > > cannot run any graphical interfaces since the X session is the users. So > > an immortal root session to get several things done, is turned into an > > individual sudo name_of_command. > > > > That can be a right PITA, even for a user whose first linux install was > > Red Hat 5.0 in 1998. > > > > There was at one time a workaround which consisted of actually starting > > another X session for root, a bad practice IMO, and I've long since > > forgotten how to do it. 80 yo wet ram problems. Yeah, old coot at the > > wheel here. > > Just set up a root password! It's something I haven't had to do in 4+ years, feels a bit retrograde, and a different password will confound my usage on the other 4 machines here. > And do remember, because it seems often to be > relevant, you have NOT got a default Wheezy install. (You had issues with > that, remember? You found a one person bug!!) Chuckle, I am a graduate, Summa Cum Laude, of the school that teaches how to do that. I must have got stoned and missed it though, don't even remember taking the course, but I am very very good at that. What is the maximum length of a password in characters? Thanks Lisi. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>