Bug 415426

Summary:	kdesu does not remember password
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0	Reporter:	mark williamson <thetazzbot>
Component:	KDE4 Workspace	Assignee:	Lubos Lunak <llunak>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P2 - High	CC:	chuckwolfe
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i386
OS:	openSUSE 11.0
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Description mark williamson 2008-08-07 12:13:41 UTC

There exists a checkbox on the kdesu dialog that says "remember password"

It is assume the functionality would be thus:

Initiate command that requires sudo/root
kdesu opens
enter credentials
check "remember password"

Next time kdesu is required, the authentication should be retrieved from stored data. (wallet?) In this situation, the dialog should be bypassed and the program that required kdesu in the first place would appear.

However, regardless of the on/off state of this checkbox, kdesu always opens with no text in the password field, thus requiring the user to always enter the password.  This is bothersome on single user home systems.

Comment 1 Dirk Mueller 2008-08-07 14:11:45 UTC

the dialog should always appear because you have to verify that you want to run a certain application as root. 

this is the same with policykit integration - even though the system could in theory run the application as root automatically, it doesn't do that because the user has to confirm. 

I'm not sure what the actual issue that bothers you is: 

a) that the dialog opens and you have to do one extra click

or 

b) that you have to reenter the password for a new command

c) that you have to reenter the password even for launching the same command. 


c) is already fixed, a) is wontfix and b) is sort of by intention.

Comment 2 chuck wolfe 2008-08-16 14:04:14 UTC

I can confirm this bug.
kde4.1, opensuse 11
the option that descibes my problem is:
c) that you have to reenter the password even for launching the same command. 

I notice kwallet is running, and I suspect that is the reason the password is not being stored.

Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2008-08-18 12:19:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 404521 ***