let root be root?

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 19:24 +0000, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On a new fedora 9 install the other day, I was running as root and clicked
> on the livna repo rpm link on the livna web pages and when the box came
> up, I clicked on "Go ahead and install this sucker".
> 
> Then firefox (or someone, anyway) said "Oh no, you don't have permission
> to install rpms, I can't do that."
> 
> AARGH!
> 
> "What do you want for Christmas kid?"
> 
> "I want to install a genuine Red Ryder rpm directly from firefox as root!"
> 
> "You'll shoot your eye out, kid!"
> 
> So just how many idiotic undocumented layers of "helpful" security software
> do I have to figure out how to use merely to have root permissions when
> running as root?

Can you run rpm from a terminal?

If not, do you have SElinux running in enforcement mode? If so, just
being root isn't enough, you need to have the right credentials to
install software (I don't run in enforcement mode so I can't remember
what they are).

poc