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Fulgurance
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:12 am    Post subject: Problem with kdesu and sudo account Reply with quote

Hello, today I was following this wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Sudo#kdesu to configure kdesu to use sudo instead of su, because I locked my root account for security reason.

So my .config/kdesurc file content is:
Code:
[super-user-command]
super-user-command=sudo


But now, when I would like to login with privileged account and I put my password, ksystemlog show the message: "Conversation with su failed". ( and the window title show "Run as root")

Just in case, I followed the wiki and I executed the command as normal user
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE#Run_GUI_applications_with_root_privileges

See last "Note" section.
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:47 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Okay, I will remove it :lol:

I was thinking maybe it's not a good idea :?
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PostPosted: Wed Jul 27, 2022 8:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is there a group available to add my user account and read the audit file ?
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