(kde installed with pam enabled) This may or may not be an issue, and may even be considered a feature to add. Kdesu throws a invalid password with no helpfull information when trying to su to do anything calendar / admin / etc, when the password entered is correct. Also pams error message while correct is also not informative but since pam isnt seen by the user and it isnt pams job, this doesnt matter. The answer to this is simple if you poke around in the config (add the user to the "Wheel" group) but to save time and make it a little friendlier to people who dont know how to poke around, perhaps adding a check to see if the user is in the group needed for those su rights and if not notify the user with Access denied instead of invalid password, and perhaps mention something about privilages.
Sorry forgot: Newest Pam with newest kde as of 11/29/2006 installed on latest xorg. -Matt
This is probably upstream, but I'm not a dev...
Hmm, does this bug still exist in kde-3.5.5? I found this in sudlg.cpp line 78 (kdebase-3.5.5-r3 and kdebase-3.5.6-r3): case SuProcess::SuNotAllowed: KMessageBox::sorry(this, i18n("You are not allowed to use 'su';\n" "on some systems, you need to be in a special " "group (often: wheel) to use this program.")); done(Rejected); return false;
Looks fixed to me in 3.5.5+, see above.
