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Quoted Ah, so you're not actually getting the opportunity to type your root password? EXACTLY! Root is unavailable to me in KDM. AND since I boot directly into KDM I cannot ever access a system login command. In essence, I can not login to anything other than KDM, or the FreeBSD installation CD (which doesn't help me uninstall installed packages). Thanks anyway, though. Both su and sudu are lost to me. I can't even open the kdm user manager utility - I get "error: KDE su returned with an error"...

Quoted from "beermad" Try accessing your user in a terminal and typing: su - You should then be prompted for your root password and when you supply it, you'll be logged in. Didn't work. Here is what I got in konsole: Source code 1 2 3 [myuser2@ /usr/home/myuser2]$ su - su: Sorry [myuser2@ /usr/home/myuser2]$ When I type it in "run command" it also gives "su:sorry". I can't access anything but KDE, and that only with a username that no longer has any super user authority. There must be (should b...

Hi, newbie KDE user. I assume this is common. But I am officially throwing up my hands and asking for help. For days after installing KDM 3.5 on FreeBSD 6.1, I had no trouble updating ports and installing packages using super user terminal and super user file manager. Any time I needed root permissions I simply opened the Super-User terminal. Now, after updating my ports, I suddenly can't access Root at ALL! The terminals either don't open, open with an su:sorry or "su returned with an error" me...