thanks Ian for telling me that kdesu should be run as user. I did that & the command 'kdesu pup' does work. <div>On 6/27/07, Ian Malone <<a href="mailto:ibmalone@gmail.com"> ibmalone@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Ashley Pritchard wrote: > hello, > > 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. Something wrong there. You evidently know the password since you can get a login at the console. What other programs that need root access? File a bug. You need to find out why this is happening; everything else is a workaround. > I have tried disabling selinux, not installing selinux updates, deleting > the > user account & creating a completely new user account with a different user > name & I have also reinstalled the OS because of this issue and here I am > back full circle. I have tried running the program through a terminal. > Loged > in as root from my user account I tried running the command 'pup' for the > package updater & I get the following info: > > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > <snip> > > It was suggested to me from someone on a listserve to try this command It was in fact this list. Please avoid starting a new thread for the same issue; people then have to go hunting for the previous discussion. > 'xhost +localhost' & 'kdesu pup' so I did & got the following info: > > [awp@localhost ~]$ xhost +localhost > localhost being added to access control list > [awp@localhost ~]$ su root > Password: > [root@localhost awp]# xhost +localhost > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > I'm not sure xhost +localhost is sufficient. Incidentally it's not expected that you then run it as root, you should be trying to run pup at this point. Is XAUTHORITY set? > [root@localhost awp]# kdesu pup > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > kdesu: cannot connect to X server :0.0 > so neither command resolved the issue. > kdesu should be run as a normal user: it's the kde equivalent to the gnome administrator password dialog, and semantically equivalent to sudo. > Then it was suggested to that I was actually logging into root the wrong > way. Do not ask me how since 'su root' has been the way i logged into root > since the old red hat days. So they said I should try 'su - root' so I did. > Well it turns out that 'su - root' does the same thing as 'su root' It does not. "su -" or "su -l" asks for a login shell, environment variables like PATH will be set correctly, not inherited from your existing shell. "root" is taken as read so 'su -l root' is equivalent to 'su -'. However I don't find that not using a login shell prevents X apps from working here. When changing shell to root you /should/ use 'su -' (or 'su - root' if you prefer), 'su root' is a security risk as your environment variables will be unchanged. Have you done anything odd to your hostname? How are you running the shell you use when su-ing to root? -- imalone -- 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