• Ghostie21@lemmy.world
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    9 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?

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        9 months ago

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

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        9 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.

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    9 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    This seems like extremely outdated software.