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