'Remember password' button: not working.

[vc]

The 'Remember password' button present on many root-access dialogue popups isn't working - checked or unchecked before or after entering the password makes no difference whatsoever; the password never gets 'remembered', so I'm forced to enter my password manually each time anyway.

Is this a bug, or a 'feature'?  How to fix same, please?

[muungwana]

its a bug carried forward from the kde3 days and i am sure there is a bug report in kde bug database and i am fairly certain it has a lot of votes on it.

a work around is to set up sudo and set the program you want to start with root privilege without a password.

[T6]

the option anyway should only work inside a session, once you log out, the password should be forgotten

to have stored your root password to automatically be remembered goes against the linux security structure

[davey]

Far as I recall, the button never saved the password for more than a short time -- a few minutes, maybe. There's no config anywhere I've found that changes that. For those who share a computer, this makes perfect security sense. For lone users it's a small PITA.

[T6]

pita?

how often you need root access?

don't close the app you need or just do all you need logged as root but be sure to know what you do

[vc]

Actually, I use it all the time - although I usually simply keep it in Klipper, and Shift+Ins (or right-click~Paste) as required.  If it wasn't for apps being deliberately root-crippled, I'd probably run as root continuously anyway.  I posted this thread because I'd noticed the behaviour - it's not really relevant to my needs, but I supposed that others besides myself may benefit from the discussion.  Should I mark this thread as [UNIMPORTANT]?

[T6]

it is a delicate detail, i don't know if you should mark it or not

i personally like that all my apps have amnesia so every time the desktop loads the apps i need but all of them don't remember a single thing form the past session

[vc]

it is a delicate detail, i don't know if you should mark it or not

Alright; I'll leave it as it is for the moment, then.

i personally like that all my apps have amnesia so every time the desktop loads the apps i need but all of them don't remember a single thing form the past session

Heh!  I did attempt to ask a similar question once - I was wondering about mounting both /tmp and /var into a ramdisk.  Unfortunately, as usual the discussion went completely awry, I wound up making the usual idiot of myself, everyone had a good laugh at my expense, and I never did figure out how to do that anyway.

Oh well.  People have opinions, apparently.

[T6]

separated partitions for this kind of folders can be done but it is a tweak a little hard to do and you won't get a lot form it, complicate your life maybe

[tschommer]

vc,

there's already a bug filed in the KDE bug database here.

For some reason it works for the exact same command for around an hour (like opening up Synaptic), but it should work as a general sudo convenience (although it is a small security risk).

Torsten

[vc]

I'm not very concerned about this one, actually - it was simply something that had annoyed me for a moment, so I thought to post in order to notify.

[tschommer]

Definitely a good idea to let others know about it.

It used to be (KDE3.1 or something like that) that you could even specify how long the password was to be remembered (max. 60 min.), but when in later releases it didn't always work I just forgot about it.