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Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon Jun 1 14:10:23 UTC 2009


Richard Hughes wrote:
> Wrong, sorry. The reason that it's not going to run as root is because
> unless you've setup PolicyKit to do otherwise

s/setup/patched and rebuilt/
PolicyKit is hardcoded to reject root, for no good reason.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447266
It works perfectly fine as root when this useless check is removed (though
it will prompt even root for authentication unless you change the policies
to blanket allow root to do everything), so I have no idea why the check is
even there.

        Kevin Kofler




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