[sclug] how to get into administrator mode on kde control center under kubuntu?

[Tim Sutton]

You should just be entering your normal password there I think. There are 
known issues around this that will be resolvd in next release. You can always 
set a root password by:

sudo su -
passwd

Regards

Tim

From: http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20050801#interview

"DW: I noted on several forums that some users have been complaining about the 
quality of KDE packages in Kubuntu. They say that these packages are buggy 
and that Kubuntu is not as stable as Ubuntu. What can you say about this? 
Have you received any similar complaints?

JR: We did have some problems with overlapping files which took longer than it 
should have to get fixed due to the C++ transition blocking new packages in 
the archives. Other significant problems have included a beastie in KControl 
stopping you from using administrator rights, this is a general problem with 
KDE but seems to occur more frequently because of our sudo changes; Kopete 
was also caught out by a change in MSN's protocol which Gaim was fortunate 
enough to not be affected by. These are the sort of issues which happen to 
all distributions, but I am aiming for 100% bug free in Kubuntu Breezy :)"


On Sunday 07 August 2005 20:08, John Stumbles wrote:
> (I've just posted this on comp.os.linux.misc but I'm sure there's
> someone on this list who'd know. If he's reading this :-)
>
> I have a kubuntu 5.04 system which I've got by doing
> apt-get install kubuntu-desktop
> on a ubuntu 5.04 system.
>
> If I run Control Center and select System Administration -> Login
> Manager and click the Administrator Mode button I'm prompted for the
> _root_ password in a window titled 'Run as root - KDE su' to run command
> kcmshell kdm -embed 52432611 -lang en-US
>
> But [k]ubunto doesn't _have_ a root password [wail!]
>
>
> (What I actually want to do is change which users on this system are
> allowed to shutdown the system - can anyone upclue me on how to do that?)
>
> tia

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