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cascat

Member

Registered: 2004-02-24

Posts: 62

no root authorization in KDE

I decided to return to Arch after leaving a few years ago.  I have installed Arch five times over the past two months always having the same problem. I followed the installation guide verbatim leaving everything in their defaults and the system is responsive and fast.  My desktop of choice is KDE and installed the whole shebang.  However, whenever I am in KDE, the system will not allow me to perform any functions requiring the root password such as setting time and date, mounting another hard drive in Dolphin, installing a printer in the print manager etc., saying "not authorized". I can perform the functions outside of KDE using the command line. I have spent numerous hours searching google and reading the wiki and forum, but have found nothing to solve the problem.  The permissions and groups are proper, logind indicates the proper terminal, installed all the polkit packages and xorg-xauth, started KDE with startx, kdm, and lightdm.  Still no luck. My instinct says there is a missing package or a messed up config somewhere as my problem is common across several operations. I returned to my old distribution so I have no log files to offer but will try again if I can solve the problem.

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ewaller

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From: Pasadena, CA

Registered: 2009-07-13

Posts: 20,722

Re: no root authorization in KDE

Check out kdesu

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cascat

Member

Registered: 2004-02-24

Posts: 62

Re: no root authorization in KDE

Hi ewaller,

kdesu is a command line program if I understand correctly and is not a standalone package so it is installed probably within kdeadmin.  Here is my problem-I click on the other hard drive (windows) in Dolphin or change the system time within the widget on the panel, a prompt appears asking for the root password. I enter it and the system delays for a few seconds and then returns "failure to authenticate, not authorized" (paraphased). I don't have this problem on other distributions.  It feels like something is missing.