let root be root?

Tom Horsley tom.horsley at att.net
Mon Jun 23 20:49:06 UTC 2008


On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:27:20 -0430
"Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:

> Can you run rpm from a terminal?

Yep, in fact all I did was save the rpm to disk
then did a rpm -ihv on it, and all was well.

> 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).

Selinux is always turned off on all my machines, this is something
new (policykit maybe?, or just firefox butt-headness?).




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