09-27-2005
FreeBSD / KDE installation woes...
Forgive the newbie question. I've been trying to install FreeBSD 5.4 on a new AMD64 based box at work today, and I started running into problems. Maybe some background is appropriate? Here goes...
I've finished the first stage of development of a model in C++ which simulates airflow through a fairly complicated medium. It's been a royal pain in the arse, but I got there, and I've been rewarded with a shiny new computer to run the model on. It's a fairly demanding model - typically taking 8 hours to run on a P4 with 0.5 GB RAM and default level 3 optimisation under gcc. Anyway, I digress...
I've been using Linux for a few years, but recently my main work box has been hacked. I left it unpatched for too long, and left an account open for a colleague with questionable taste in passwords. Plus I now work at UC Berkeley, so I'll admit there's a certain amount of willy waving going on in the office about BSD...
Googling the first install problem taught me to amend the ttyv8 line in /etc/ttys to get KDE (3.4?) running on boot. Of course, the next problem was that I hadn't added my user account to the wheel group. So, one re-install and some text editing later, I found that kdesu isn't working. It's rejecting bad passwords, but it isn't letting me view KDE administration applications.with the correct root password. Oh, su works fine now except for launching KDE apps...
I'm going to post again in this thread with the error message I get from $kdesu kcontrol &as soon as I get into work tomorrow, but I was hoping there might be a potted response someone much wiser than me could come up with. More Googling tells me that kdesu was actually broken in some earlier FreeBSD releases. In the meantime, do I need to go with Gnome? Is there a likely fix in a config file / group membership / file permission that I haven't thought of?
Sorry to be vague - if there's not enough info here, please hang fire for 12 hours and I'll post error messages for your entertainment. If something springs to mind, please let me know. And thanks in advance.
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KDESU(1) KDE User's Manual KDESU(1)
NAME
kdesu - Runs a program with elevated privileges
SYNOPSIS
kdesu [-c] [-d] [-f file] [-i icon name] [-n] [-p priority] [-r] [-s] [-t] [-u user] [--nonewdcop] [command [arg1] [arg2] [...]]
kdesu [KDE Generic Options] [Qt Generic Options]
DESCRIPTION
KDE su is a graphical front end for the UNIX(R) su command for the K Desktop Environment. It allows you to run a program as different user
by supplying the password for that user. KDE su is an unprivileged program; it uses the system's su.
KDE su has one additional feature: it can optionally remember passwords for you. If you are using this feature, you only need to enter the
password once for each command.
This program is meant to be started from the command line or from .desktop files.
OPTIONS
-c program
This specifies the program to run as root. It has to be passed in one argument. So if, for example, you want to start a new file
manager, you would enter at the prompt: kdesu -c kfm -sw
-d Show debug information.
-f file
This option allow efficient use of KDE su in .desktop files. It tells KDE su to examine the file specified by file. If this file is
writable by the current user, KDE su will execute the command as the current user. If it is not writable, the command is executed as
user user (defaults to root).
file is evaluated like this: if file starts with a /, it is taken as an absolute filename. Otherwise, it is taken as the name of a
global KDE configuration file. For example: to configure the K display manager, kdm, you could issue kdesu -c kdmconfig -f kdmrc
-i icon name
Specify icon to use in the password dialog. You may specify just the name, without any extension.
-n Do not keep the password. This disables the keep password checkbox in the password dialog.
-p priority
Set priority value. The priority is an arbitrary number between 0 and 100, where 100 means highest priority, and 0 means lowest. The
default is 50.
-r Use realtime scheduling.
-s Stop the kdesu daemon. This is the daemon that caches successful passwords in the background. This feature may also be disabled with
-n when KDE su is initially run.
-t Enable terminal output. This disables password keeping. This is largely for debugging purposes; if you want to run a console mode
app, use the standard su instead.
-u user
While the most common use for KDE su is to run a command as the superuser, you can supply any user name and the appropriate pass-
word.
SEE ALSO
su(1)
More detailed user documentation is available from help:/kdesu (either enter this URL into Konqueror, or run khelpcenter help:/kdesu).
EXAMPLES
Run kfmclient as user jim, and show the Konqueror icon in the password dialog:
kdesu -u jim -i konqueror kfmclient
AUTHORS
KDE su was written by Geert Jansen <jansen@kde.org> and Pietro Iglio <iglio@fub.it>.
AUTHOR
Lauri Watts.
K Desktop Environment Jun 7, 2005 KDESU(1)