if I was entering my root passwork incorrectly the dialogue would just go away & reappear asking for the root password again. In this case I enter my root password correctly & the dialog disapears & does not come back. Alternatively if my root authentication was failing in the terminal it would not see: [root@localhost awp]# which shows that I am loged in as root from my user account. <div>On 6/27/07, Tim <<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au"> ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 00:28 -0700, Ashley Pritchard wrote: > I have recently installed Fedora 7 on my machine & got it working for > the most part ie...adding DVD, mp3 support etc...but now when I login > to my user account from GDM into Gnome I am not able to use any > programs that require root access. If the Package updater pops up with > updates I click on view packages & it asks for my root password. I > enter it & nothing happens & it does the same thing for all programs > that need root access. You're certain that it's being entered correctly (no caps lock, etc.)? And you haven't used some special characters that mightn't get treated the same in a GUI environment? Just saying that to cover all the bases. I've just recently installed FC7, and don't have this issue. I am logged in as myself, I haven't logged in graphically as root at all, so far. I boot in run level 5, and the GUI is started automatically, then I log in as myself. If I pick something from the menus that requires the root password, I'm prompted and it accepts. If I su - in a terminal and issue a command that does something graphical, it works (note 1). I haven't tried booting in run level 3 (text only), starting X manually, then doing "su -" to switch users. I started off with the fairly basic defaults it offered me, and added a few things. Nothing special though, just a few user applications and control panels for some services. You might want to post a list of what you have installed, so others can compare. You can grab a list of everything installed from an RPM from this file: /var/log/rpmpkgs Note 1. ------- Things like this work for me: [tim@bigblack ~]$ su - Password: [root@bigblack ~]# serviceconf -- [tim@bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386 Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5. Today, it's FC7. Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- fedora-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-list@redhat.com">fedora-list@redhat.com</a> To unsubscribe: <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list </a> </blockquote></div> -- Diolch yn fawr, Ashley