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]
>
>
>>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
>>
>>
>
>Yes, they do, they just don't appear to be the issue you are having.
>
>At a terminal, type:
>
># which system-config-services
>
>And give us the output.
>
>
>
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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