On 14/03/13 04:57 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote:
Hi folks,
since some time I discovered a strange behaviour. Whenever I want to kill a
process, or need root privileges (i.e. with kdesu) and I need to enter my root
password, this is not accepted.
But - when I use the password of the user I am working with in this cases, it
will work. This is very strange! The normal user can do things, that root
cannot do (only in KDE).
I admit, it might be a setting problem in KDE, but I cannot remember, to
configure or change anything related to this behavior.
Can someone give me a clue, what I can check, to get back to normal behavior?
This problem appears only on my amd64-machine, my other two machines are
working fine.
Thank you very much.
Regards
Hans
Sounds like root may be disabled and you are using sudo to execute those
commands. This is a normal method for running Linux these days. To
re-enable root, open a terminal and try:
sudo bash (to get to a root prompt)
passwd root
exit
Then try to su into root.
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