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-Q: On my SuSE system, KDE su does not compile. I get an error that some Qt
- header files cannot be found.
-A: Install the package qtcompat.
-
-Q: Is KDE su safe?
-A: No program is 100% safe. However, KDE su is not setuid root and it
- handles the password you enter with great care so it should be safe
- enough.
-
-Q: How safe is password keeping?
-A: Enabling password keeping is less secure that disabling it. However, the
- scheme tdesu uses to keep passwords prevents everyone (including you, the
- user) from accessing them. Please see the HTML documentation for a full
- description of this scheme.
-
-Q: Can I execute tty applications with tdesu?
-A: No. TTY application will probably never be supported. Use the Unix su for
- those.
- NOTE: As of version 0.94, tty _output_ _only_ is supported with the `-t'
- switch. This disables password keeping, though.
-
-Q: What systems does KDE su support?
-A: Tested are:
- * Linux 2.x (Redhat 6.x, Mandrake "Cooker", Debian potato, SuSE 6.1)
- * Solaris 7 (intel)
- * FreeBSD 3.2 (intel, w/ egcs 1.1.2)
- It will probably work on more systems but I cannot test that.
-
-Q: Why doesn't it support every system that is out there.
-A: KDE su needs to setup a pty/tty pair for communicating with `su'. This is
- because some `su' implementations refuse to read a password from stdin if
- that is not a tty. Setting up a pty/tty pair is not completely portable.
-
-Q: A good debug tip?
-A: If tdesu doesn't fire up your application, use the '-t' switch.
- This way, you'll get terminal output. Maybe there is something wrong with
- the program you're trying to run.
-
-Q: I always get the warning: "Terminal output not available on non-terminal".
-A: Maybe you're not logged on from a terminal but probably you're using
- UNIX98 pty's without glibc 2.1 (Linux). The glibc 2.0 ttyname() function
- incorrectly reports that UNIX98 slave pty's are no tty's.
-
-Q: Why not use DCOP for the communications with the daemon?
-A: KDE su needs one instance of the daemon per host, instead of per desktop
- session.