Kdesudo will not accept my password.

[NexusHumanis]

Every time i try to do anything requireing the use of Kdesudo, I get an error message stating that I have typed the wrong password. I have not. Normal sudo works fine, and I can install software through mint-install, but not synaptic or gdebi-kde.
It seems to be a ownership issue, and I need help to locate the problem and solve it. Anyone for the challenge?

[oshunluvr]

Re: Kdesudo will not accept my password.

Start by searching your home directory for files owned by root.

In a terminal type; ls -lR ~ |grep root

This will list all files possibly owned by root.

If you have any, you can seek them out individually, or simply change ownership of all files in your home to you;

sudo chown -Rv --preserve-root --from=root:root USERNAME:GROUPNAME ~/* ~/.*

should do it.

[NexusHumanis]

Re: Kdesudo will not accept my password.(Solved)

Thanks for replying, but it seems the problem had a much more mundane solution than I thought. Kdesu simply does not accept some of the letters I used in my passphrase, as they are special to my language. Changing password solved the issue.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Kdesudo will not accept my password.

Wow, interesting. I would have never suspected that one.

[blackpaw]

Re: Kdesudo will not accept my password.

Thanks for replying, but it seems the problem had a much more mundane solution than I thought. Kdesu simply does not accept some of the letters I used in my passphrase, as they are special to my language. Changing password solved the issue.

That definitely sounds like a bug worth reporting to kde.bugs.org