Thanks for the information about root password, the link was very informative.

Thanks for the heads up in regards to sudo’s status as sacrosanct due it being the first account created making it sudo-special. Be careful...

Super thanks to laprjns who actually installed KDE by slapt-get - - install ...

While all of this chatter about / and /home is entertaining, it has nothing to do with the topic in regards to why the sudo password isn’t recognized in KDE desktop but works as it should XFCE and why sudo works from the terminal.

I reinstalled Salix. Home now houses my user folder and a lost ...

Thanks for the suggestion and the quick response, but it didn’t work. I think I’m going to have to reinstall.

I installed Salix from the live-USB and screwed up the install because my home directory is filled with a duplication of root directories – perhaps this is why KDE doesn’t recognize my ...

I’ve installed Salix 14.2 XFCE, after which I installed KDE desktop from the repositories. This went without errors, but I now find that those actions which require administrative level privileges don’t work with regard to KDE components which require su.

For example if I go to KDE application ...