On Wednesday 30 December 2015 11:39:13 am 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
>
> 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
>
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have you tried adding a sudo password and using it, at least as a workaround

d.