do we have gnomesu command on Fedora?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Jul 26 18:40:43 UTC 2006


Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 01:06:36PM -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=142648
>> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164671
>> So, from what I gather, it doesn't work, and it's been marked WONTFIX.
>> Lovely.  I guess you can take your consolehelper and stick it... well you
>> know. (:
> 
> Aaah. When I follow the steps in the bug, I get the same problem. However,
> if I do any of these, it works fine:
> 
>  1. Just run "system-config-date" without sudo. (As previously noted, you
>     can set up consolehelper to make this prompt authorized users to
>     authenticate with their own password.)

That's exactly what doesn't work (when used in a remote ssh session), at
least not on my RHEL4 box, which is what prompted my whole rant against
consolehelper in the first place.  

Every other app I can think of works as expected, including the
aforementioned kdesu.

-- Rex





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