KDE su

[robbedoes52]

I downloaded and installed Kubuntu on dec 2 2005

Trying to start the useradmin in KDE (KUser, or Adept, or Adept updater) I'm asked for a password.

My own user password does not work (I think thats perfect)
I try the su password and get the reply " sorry su, wrong password.

But,
when I open a shell; do "su" and enter the password (the same as above) I am su

The whole thing with "sudo" does not work somehow.

[aysiu]

This might have happened if you did an expert install instead of just a regular install. Is that what you did?

Otherwise, the first user you created should have sudo (i.e., administrative) privileges. That is, you should be able to run
kdesu kuser, type in your user password and gain root rights.

For more, read https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

[jackripper]

There's 2 installs the default and the server. So is the server the expert install?

[kubicle]

Actually there are 4, default, server, expert and server-expert (or expert-server, can't remember)

[Nirvana]

didn't this problem get fixed in 3.5? I remeber someone saying it did