Bug 471765
| Summary: | kdesu called from "System Settings" returns "Incorrect password, please try again." | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Elgar Pichler <epichler> |
| Component: | kdebase-runtime | Assignee: | Than Ngo <than> |
| Status: | CLOSED WORKSFORME | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 11 | CC: | epichler, jreznik, kevin, lorenzo, ltinkl, rdieter, smparrish, than, tuxbrewr |
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| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2009-07-23 17:54:07 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Re the additional info: The KDE 3 kdesu is known to have problems with KDE 4 apps. IMHO we should kill it from kdebase3 and symlink /usr/libexec/kde4/kdesu to /usr/bin/kdesu instead. But the original error is strange. Any SELinux AVC denials? SELinux "System Default Enforcing Mode" is disabled on my system. So I assume the kdesu problem I described is independent of that. I cannot reproduce, unfortunately. rpm -q kdelibs kdebase-workspace please. Perhaps a wierd variant of bug #457638 ? Saw in comments to bug #457638 that other KDE packages might be of interest so I'm listing all KDE related packages that are installed on my system: > rpm -qa | grep -i kde | sort kde-filesystem-4-19.fc9.noarch kde-settings-4.0-25.fc9.noarch kde-settings-kdm-4.0-25.fc9.noarch kde-settings-pulseaudio-4.0-25.fc9.noarch kdeaccessibility-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdeadmin-4.1.2-3.fc9.i386 kdeartwork-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdeartwork-extras-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdeartwork-icons-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdeartwork-kxs-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdebase-4.1.2-5.fc9.i386 kdebase-libs-4.1.2-5.fc9.i386 kdebase-runtime-4.1.2-5.fc9.i386 kdebase-runtime-libs-4.1.2-5.fc9.i386 kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-10.fc9.i386 kdebase-workspace-libs-4.1.2-10.fc9.i386 kdebase3-3.5.10-2.fc9.i386 kdebase3-libs-3.5.10-2.fc9.i386 kdebase3-pim-ioslaves-3.5.10-2.fc9.i386 kdebindings-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdebluetooth-0.2-3.fc9.i386 kdeedu-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdeedu-kstars-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdeedu-libs-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdeedu-math-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdegames-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdegames-libs-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdegraphics-4.1.2-2.fc9.1.i386 kdegraphics-libs-4.1.2-2.fc9.1.i386 kdelibs-4.1.2-5.fc9.i386 kdelibs-common-4.1.2-5.fc9.i386 kdelibs3-3.5.10-1.fc9.i386 kdemultimedia-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdemultimedia-libs-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdenetwork-4.1.2-3.fc9.i386 kdenetwork-libs-4.1.2-3.fc9.i386 kdepim-3.5.10-2.fc9.i386 kdepim-libs-3.5.10-2.fc9.i386 kdepimlibs-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdeplasma-addons-4.1.2-2.fc9.i386 kdesdk-4.1.2-3.fc9.i386 kdesdk-libs-4.1.2-3.fc9.i386 kdesdk-utils-4.1.2-3.fc9.i386 kdesvn-1.2.1-1.fc9.i386 kdeutils-4.1.2-3.fc9.i386 kdewebdev-3.5.10-1.fc9.i386 kdewebdev-libs-3.5.10-1.fc9.i386 it looks like the same bug #457638. Could you please try KDE 4.1.3 from update-testing? As suggested I updated to KDE 4.1.3:
The problem as originally described persists.
Then I upgraded my system to F10. Now my installed KDE RPMS are at version 4.1.3-1.fc10:
Still no luck.
Additional info:
I tried the following:
1. Trigger kdesu via System Settings that require root privileges, as in
System Settings->Advanced->Login Manager
That fails with original error
Incorrect password, please try again.
2. Then I called kdesu from a command line, as in
/usr/libexec/kde4/kdesu -i preferences-system-login \
-c "/usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm --lang en_US"
entered my password, checked 'Remember password', and got the KDM settings
window. So that works!
3. Then I closed the KDM settings window and checked if the password was
remembered. I tried calling up the KDM settings window again with
System Settings->Advanced->Login Manager
as well as with
/usr/libexec/kde4/kdesu -i preferences-system-login \
-c "/usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm --lang en_US"
In both cases I am no longer prompted for a password by kdesu - okay; but
the KDM settings window never materializes - why?!
4. Then calling
System Settings->Advanced->Samba
again throws up the kdesu password prompt with the original problem - why?
All not quite what I expected. I would have expected/hoped that
- kdesu accepts the password even if triggered from System Settings
- I could call up '... kdesu ... -c "/usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm ...' repeatedly,
with the password being rememember as requested
- the password would be remembered for all kdesu calls (at least for a certain
time frame).
Hope that gives any further clues. Cheers,
e2.
Is this still an issue with 4.1.4? Yup, sorry to say that the problem described above has been an issue with KDE 4.1.x and has still not been resolved for me for KDE 4.2.0. Cheers, e2. Since this is still an issue going to rebase this to F11. -- Steven M. Parrish - KDE Triage Master Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers Ping? Kevin's idea in <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=471765#c1">comment #1</a> sounds like a good one. -- Steven M. Parrish - KDE Triage Master Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers That has been implemented a while ago, /usr/bin/kdesu is now a symlink to /usr/libexec/kde4/kdesu. But this doesn't fix the problem this bug is really about, just the "Additional info" part. So what do we want to do with this?
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Steven M. Parrish - KDE Triage Master
- PackageKit Triager
Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team
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Imo, until we can find the root cause (and preferably be able to reproduce it), there's not much we can do. i cannot reproduce it even with selinux enable (with current kde-4.2.4) Since this cannot be reproduced at this time going to close this as WORKSFORME. Please feel free to reopen if the problem returns and you have additional data for us to consider.
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Steven M. Parrish - KDE Triage Master
- PackageKit Triager
Fedora Bugzappers volunteer triage team
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers
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Description of problem: Calling kdesu via any System Settings that require root privileges, e.g., System Settings->Advanced->Login Manager triggers /usr/libexec/kde4/kdesu -i preferences-system-network-share-windows \ "-c /usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm --lang en_US" which results in an Incorrect password, please try again. error, although the correct password was entered in the kdesu prompt. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): System: Fedora 9 RPM: kdebase-runtime-4.1.2-5.fc9.i386 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: see description of problem above Actual results: see above Expected results: The same call to kdesu /usr/libexec/kde4/kdesu -i preferences-system-network-share-windows \ "-c /usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm --lang en_US" issued from a konsole works as expected. Additional info: /usr/bin/kdesu (from kdebase3-3.5.10-2.fc9.i386) on the same system called from command line with /usr/bin/kdesu -i preferences-system-network-share-windows \ "-c /usr/bin/kcmshell4 kdm --lang en_US" also has some problems (password is accepted, but KDM settings window never gets displayed).