Server Tools Don't Prompt for Root Password

Randy Chrismon rchrismon at patmedia.net
Mon Nov 22 21:15:31 UTC 2004


William Hooper wrote:

>Randy Chrismon said:
>[snip]
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>>I seem to be doing a terrible job of explaining myself. I _did_ misstate
>>the applications in my question: The System Settings applications off the
>>main redhat button on the tool bar used to prompt for the root password.
>>They no longer do so and I'm trying to get that behavior back.
>>There are console.apps and console.perms files but they do not seem to
>>address this issue
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>Yes, they do, they just don't appear to be the issue you are having.
>
>At a terminal, type:
>
># which system-config-services
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>And give us the output.
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At the console the following text appears:

userhelper must be setuid root

Then the GUI insufficient privileges message box pops up.

Thanks.
Randy




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