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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: "Run Command" as different user doesn't work
From:       Geert Jansen <g.t.jansen () stud ! tue ! nl>
Date:       2000-12-16 11:45:48
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Falk Brettschneider wrote:
 
> RMB on the desktop opens a popup menu.
> I choose "Run Command", type the word "netscape", click Options, click
> "Run as different user", enter a valid username (diffent than me), click
> into the edit box for the password, type the right password for that
> user and click "Run".
> For several seconds, the CPU load is 100% (but there's no application
> button in the taskbar of the desktop panel), then CPU load is 0% again
> and nothing happens at all - no Netscape started.
 
For some people kdesu doesn't seem to work... What OS/distro are you using?
 
Could you send me a trace of the conversation between su <-> kdesu. You can
do this by adding a printf() around line 154 of kdelibs/kdesu/su.cpp, method
SuProcess::ConverseSU().
 
Thanks!
 
Greetings,
Geert

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