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submitted 10 months ago by DripGeronimo@lemmy.zip to c/fedora@lemmy.ml
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[-] Ghostie21@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

Are you using your users password or the root accounts password? This wants the root accounts password. What groups are you apart of?

[-] DripGeronimo@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

I haven't set up a root user on this installation; I'm in the wheel group

[-] Ghostie21@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Considering the software specifically asked for root I think you'll either need to make a root account or find newer software.

[-] Novi@sh.itjust.works 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You need to get into PAM then and change the configuration. This is asking to become root NOT escalate privileges via sudo or similar so being in wheel does not matter.

Actually 2 seconds of looking at the GitHub page will show you how to configure your application to not ask for root.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

Dafuk is that tool. Normally you want to use polkit > sudo > su. You dont need a root account and VanillaOS doesnt even need sudo anymore.

This seems like extremely outdated software.

[-] DripGeronimo@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 months ago

It's a Plasma widget that uses EnvyControl to switch between GPUs on systems that have both an nvidia and AMD GPU. It works fine using the command line, but this widget runs into this issue

https://github.com/enielrodriguez/optimus-gpu-switcher

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago

You might want to fork it, replace kdesu with pkexec and see how that goes.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And, how did it go? I see they already use pkexec

[-] jlow@beehaw.org 1 points 10 months ago

Would be interested as well, for me this happens with KSystemLog.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 8 months ago

Run it with pkexec instead

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