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How can i stop empathy from asking root password

Asked by Francois Thunus

I have installed netbook remix on my son's eeepc, but it keeps asking for the root password every first logon of the session.
how do I prevent that ? he's not getting the root password, and I can't be around all the time.
we never had the problem with amsn, or any other program he uses for that matter.
why a different treatment ? where do I turn that thing off ?
Thanks

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#1

Open the terminal and try running:

sudo chown -R $USER:$USER ~/.gconf/apps/empathy

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Francois Thunus (thunus) said : 		#2

It didn't work.
I pushed the logic even further after seeing it wasn't working and chown -R ~/.gconf/apps/empathy/*, but it didn't help either.
I also chekced the whole /home/$USER, found that for some reason .. was root.root, changed that as well. no luck :-(

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wojox (wojox) said : 		#3

Does it say anything about a default keyring? If so try:

Programs-> Accessories-> Keyrings
Password tab
Rightclick and select change password

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Francois Thunus (thunus) said : 		#4

Did it. The app now requires my son's pwd to run.

It does not solve the original problem (ie the asking), but it is an acceptable workaround, thanks.

I consider the problem solved.

I will dig into the config of Seahorse and see where it stores the apps it manages and suppress it from the config there.

And congratulation for the whole team for an excellent job on this netbook edition (as well), and on ubuntu in general. I run debian myself, but my kids are all running ubuntu, and all netbooks are using netbook remix, regardless of what the original software was :-)

Cheers