superuser

[carmelinux]

Hi! I have experienced the same problem in Ubuntu Breezy,Kubuntu Breezy
and Kubuntu Dapper. While on Gnome or KDE as a normal user,when I launch
a superuser program (i.e. synaptic or adept) a window is open asking
for "your password". If I give the superuser password it says "wrong
password"; if I give the user password it does nothing at all, I mean
it closes the window asking the password then it does not launch i.e.
synaptic or adept,but does nothing at all.Any idea,please? TNX!

[Simon Jones]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 09:50:23 +0200, carmelinux mumbled:

> Hi! I have experienced the same problem in Ubuntu Breezy,Kubuntu Breezy
> and Kubuntu Dapper. While on Gnome or KDE as a normal user,when I launch
> a superuser program (i.e. synaptic or adept) a window is open asking
> for "your password". If I give the superuser password it says "wrong
> password"; if I give the user password it does nothing at all, I mean
> it closes the window asking the password then it does not launch i.e.
> synaptic or adept,but does nothing at all.Any idea,please? TNX!

Enter the first user password. There is no root password. There is no root
user.

When you installed it you added the first user with (hopefully) a password
this is what it wants to know.
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Simon.
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[carmelinux]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:51:54 +0000, Simon Jones wrote:

>> While on Gnome or KDE as a normal user,when I launch
>> a superuser program (i.e. synaptic or adept) a window is open asking
>> for "your password". If I give the superuser password it says "wrong
>> password"; if I give the user password it does nothing at all, I mean
>> it closes the window asking the password then it does not launch i.e.
>> synaptic or adept,but does nothing at all.Any idea,please? TNX!

>
> Enter the first user password. There is no root password. There is no root
> user.
>
> When you installed it you added the first user with (hopefully) a password
> this is what it wants to know.

If I enter the user password,as I wrote,it exits doing nothing.
what I have to do to run such an application is as follows:
1)open a terminal
2)su
3) give root password (it DOES exist!)
4)launch and correctly execute synaptic

what's wrong ??? TNX

[DanielEKFA]

carmelinux wrote:

> On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 07:51:54 +0000, Simon Jones wrote:

>>> While on Gnome or KDE as a normal user,when I launch
>>> a superuser program (i.e. synaptic or adept) a window is open asking
>>> for "your password". If I give the superuser password it says "wrong
>>> password"; if I give the user password it does nothing at all, I mean
>>> it closes the window asking the password then it does not launch i.e.
>>> synaptic or adept,but does nothing at all.Any idea,please? TNX!

>>
>> Enter the first user password. There is no root password. There is no
>> root user.
>>
>> When you installed it you added the first user with (hopefully) a
>> password this is what it wants to know.

>
> If I enter the user password,as I wrote,it exits doing nothing.
> what I have to do to run such an application is as follows:
> 1)open a terminal
> 2)su
> 3) give root password (it DOES exist!)
> 4)launch and correctly execute synaptic
>
> what's wrong ??? TNX

I have been wondering about how the root user works in Kubuntu. On my
laptop, I can log in using "root" at the terminal. On my desktop computer,
I cannot. Both puters allow "sudo -H su" to become root after
editing /etc/sudoers. "sudo -H <some-kde-app>" usually fails, while "sudo
<some-kde-app>" doesn't (even though there's a root home folder). I'm just
puzzled that the behavior isn't the same on two different systems that
installed from the same Breezy CD...

[Simon Jones]

On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:14:51 +0200, carmelinux mumbled:

> If I enter the user password,as I wrote,it exits doing nothing.
> what I have to do to run such an application is as follows:
> 1)open a terminal
> 2)su
> 3) give root password (it DOES exist!)
> 4)launch and correctly execute synaptic
>
> what's wrong ??? TNX
>

Your installation, there should not be a root user. You should sudo su to
get to root and use the first user password.

Have a look here: [url]http://ubuntuguide.org/[/url]
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Simon.
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