Run as root - KDE su, not working

th0th696 · Apprentice Joined: 08 Dec 2004 Posts: 185

Within the KDE control center under System Administration > Login Manager, I click Administrator Mode so I can enable autologin for this ancient G3 I use as a glorified chat box. But when the authentication window comes up it won't accept my root pass. Funny thing is I also cannot su to root from a standard Konsole (nor a gnome-terminal either now that I'm checking). However, I can login as root by tapping ctrl-alt F1 and doing so from the first VT. But I am unsure how to configure an auto-login for KDE if I can't use the KDE su function. Any ideas?

labba · Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2006 9:20 pm Post subject:

Is your user in the "wheel" group?

cre8nkos · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Colorado, USA

I'm getting the same problem with my new gentoo installation. I'm unable to su.....kde is not recognizing the password.

cre8nkos · n00b Joined: 04 Jan 2006 Posts: 25 Location: Colorado, USA

I made the same post and someone posted a fix that worked for me. Here is the url:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-444031.html