Konsole problem - partially solved

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sun Apr 13 15:12:35 UTC 2008


On Sunday 13 April 2008 15:28, David Timms wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> > In theory it is possible to set up a profile for a root konsole, with the
> > command either 'su - /bin/bash' or 'sudo /bin/bash'.  In practice neither
> > works.  With the first example The root profile flickers up and
> > immediately dies, without asking for the password.  The second case asks
> > for password, but refuses both user and root passwords.  My choice is to
> > get the first working, but at the moment neither are any use.
> >
> > sudoers is set to allow members of the wheel group access to ALL but with
> > password, and I've checked that I'm in that group.
> >
> > I can't think what else could be blocking this.  Any ideas?
>
> There was mention earlier today about a bug {now fiexed in koji} that
> talked about delay in ssh-ing, perhaps that is related ?

After today's updates and a restart the sudo version now works.  Unfortunately 
my preferred 'su -' version still doesn't.

Anne




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