Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:33:14 +0100 (CET) From: Pieter Donche <Pieter.Donche@ua.ac.be> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: KDE Login Manager leaves unexpectedly (3) Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.63.0811172127270.1983@hmacs.cmi.ua.ac.be>
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Second Addendum at the end: On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Pieter Donche wrote: > In FreeSBD 7.0, set up KDE 3.5. > I want to change settings in KDE Settings/SystemAdministration / LoginManager > (no shutdown possibility for a non-root privilege user) > > This asks for the root password, I enter the correct root password, > click OK, and that dialog window closes and I back in the desktop ... > > Why ??? > > (the root password is certainly correct, if I change a letter, I get > Incorrect Password; try again) > > I can choose 'ignore' and continue with non-root privileges, but when > I want to change something that requires root privileges, same dialog > box and when entering correct password, the dialog window closes... When I first click at the bottom, the button 'Adminstrator Mode' same dialog box, that closes at correct root password, but I am still left in non-root privileges (although there is now a red line arround the dialog window) but most of the settings that one should be able to change are grey .. because I still am not yet in root-privilege mode the user I was logged in which is part ot the group wheel (I a terminal window I can do aan su -, give the root paswsword and have all root privileges) Addendum 2: I tried with checking the 'remember password' in the dialog window and entered the root paswoord. the window closes as before but at any next try, I get nothing at all any more: Settings / System Administration / LoginManager shows a dancing icon for 20 seconds and then disappears, leaving me in the desktop (probably because of the same non-responsiveness to a correctly. How to remedy all this ???
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