kdesu broken after 'sudo' update - can't enter YAST

[felipe1982]

I've read these threads on the topic, but I am not yet able to solve my specific problem (one) (two) (three)

Some time ago, I attempted to add myself in the 'sudoer' file (available through the YAST front-end). After adding my name, I was no longer able to open YAST with the admin (root) password. Instead of the root password, I was able to open YAST with my 'user' password. I realized there was a 'fix' for this in the update sources for suse 10.2 (broken sudo fix, broken sudoer fix -- something like that). After installing the 'patch' YAST fails to open completely, whenever I use ANY password. I have verified that the passwords are correct and working (i can log into KDE as both myself and as root). I've tried creating new passwords for myself and for root, but it doesn't let me in. It asks me three times, and then it produces the following error: "Conversation with su failed."

What's the problem, and how can i fix it?

[felipe1982]

Does anyone have similar problems? Does anybody have a solution?

[brugy]

I had same problem so I checked /etc/sudoers where I found some breaklines in bad place. After I corrected that everything was fine. (sry my EN)

[gecko2004]

Does anyone have similar problems? Does anybody have a solution?

I found a solution here Re: kdesu funktioniert nicht mehr

When editing the file /etc/sudoers you are asked to uncommend two lines with default entries.

Defaults targetpw
ALL ALL = (ALL) ALL

These entries seem to be responsable for the malfunction of kdesu.

Instead of what the manual says, kdesu nowadays uses sudo not su to run programs.

I was not brave enough to just uncomment them again, instead I wrote this little text file kdesurc (see link) in /home/username/.kde/share/config/ and kdesu worked with su again.

gecko