Every kcontrol applet that needs root priviledges appears to be broken on my machanine... and I haven't done anything other than emerge stuff. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.try to get into root mode of a kde program 2. says passwords wrong 3. try suing from a shell.. and it works Sorry - KDE su Incorrect password! Please try again. bash-2.05b# emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r6 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3_pre20040420-r0, 2.6.5-gentoo-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.5-gentoo-r1 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1700+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.12 distcc 2.14 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aac aalib accessibility acl acpi acpi4linux alsa amd apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile avi berkdb bidi bonobo canna cdr cjk cjkcrypt crypt cscope cups dga directfb divx4linux doc dv dvb dvd encode esd evms2 faad fam fbcon ffmpeg flac flash foomaticdb freetype freewnn fs gdbm ggi gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml guile imagemagick imap imlib jack java javascript joystick jpeg kde kerberos krb4 ldap libcss libdvdread libg++ libwww mad maildir md5sum mdb mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg mpeg4 mule mysql nas ncurses net nls nptl nvidia oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl pic png postgres python qt quicktime readline samba sasl scanner sdl slang spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora threads tiff transcode truetype unicode usb v4l vhosts virus-scan x86 xine xinerama xml2 xmms xv xvid zeo zlib" bash-2.05b#
bash-2.05b# ls kcmshell -lah -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4.3K Apr 20 07:33 kcmshell bash-2.05b# pwd /usr/kde/3.2/bin Temporary fix: chmod s+u /usr/kde/3.2/bin/kcmshell
dang it.. u+s instead of s+u and... it didn't make it work! so it's probably not a good idea to have kcmshell suidroot
sorry for so many posts.. i think there is a problem with ksu and being build with kerberos this is GOOFY I'm now looking for bugs at kde's website bash-2.05b$ ksu WARNING: Your password may be exposed if you enter it here and are logged in remotely using an unsecure (non-encrypted) channel. Kerberos password for root@EXAMPLE.COM: : ksu: Cannot resolve network address for KDC in requested realm while getting initial credentials Authentication failed. bash-2.05b$ ksu WARNING: Your password may be exposed if you enter it here and are logged in remotely using an unsecure (non-encrypted) channel. Kerberos password for root@EXAMPLE.COM: : ksu: Cannot resolve network address for KDC in requested realm while getting initial credentials Authentication failed. bash-2.05b$ ksu WARNING: Your password may be exposed if you enter it here and are logged in remotely using an unsecure (non-encrypted) channel. Kerberos password for root@EXAMPLE.COM: : ksu: Cannot resolve network address for KDC in requested realm while getting initial credentials Authentication failed. bash-2.05b$
ksu is not a kde program, it's a kerberos program ;) kdesu is the program that is broken for you... which version of kdelibs are you running? have you tried reemerging it? for some time in the past the kdelibs 3.2.2 ebuild produced a broken kdesu, but it is now fixed by kde-base/kdelibs/files/kdelibs-3.2.2-su.cpp.diff
Your right, it works after recompililng... for 4 hours or so.. the kdelibs. why wasn't the new kdelibs with the diff file marked kdelibs-3.2.2-r1 ?
At that time kdelibs had just entered ~x86 state, and was a heavy work in progress, I guess.
