[ale] SuSE 10.2, can't log in as root

[James Taylor]

Interesting.
I don't us sudo, and when I put the root password in kdesu works.
It must change based on whether the user is in the sudousers file.
-jt

>>> On Mon, Jan 8, 2007 at 11:47 AM, in message
<45A275B6.7070303 at fayettedigital.com>, Jim <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
wrote: 
> James Taylor wrote:
>> It works fine for me on two different boxes.
>> I'm not sure why it doesn't work for you.
>>
>> Try running yast from a command line using 
>>
>> kdesu yast2 &
>>
>> and see what error you get.
>>
>>
>> - jt
>>
>>
>>   
>>   
> Incorrect password: Please try again.  Looks like kdesu is the
> culprit.    However that gave me an idea, I ran strace on kdesu.
> 
> I saw this in the dump:
> 
> access("/usr/bin/sudo", X_OK)           = 0]
> open("/dev/ptmx", O_RDWR)               = 10
> 
> A little while later it was communicating with file descriptor 10.  On
> the off chance he was using sudo, I tried my password rather than
> root's.  It worked.  That is a change from 10.1 and 9.3. 
> 
> I'm in the sudousers file so I guess it used sudo instead of su to
> execute kdesu.
> 
> I think someone should have mentioned that.  But then I did gloss over
> the release notes in a bit of a hurry.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim.
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