How to administer Fedora via VNC connection
Dawid Zamirski
dzrudy at gmail.com
Mon Jun 15 20:50:34 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:04 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> I have two VNC sessions set up - one for my caf
> account and one for root, both passworded of
> course.
>
> Unfortunately somtthing in Fedora prevents me
> from doing system mx tasks such as add/remove
> software and getting disk drive health reports.
>
> How can I enable effective system admin via VNC,
> at least on my local subnet? I want to do most
> of my system admin tasks from my comfortable office,
> not the cold dark noisy basement where the Fedora
> server sits.
>
>
> --
> Chuck Forsberg caf at omen.com www.omen.com 503-614-0430
> Developer of Industrial ZMODEM(Tm) for Embedded Applications
> Omen Technology Inc "The High Reliability Software"
> 10255 NW Old Cornelius Pass Portland OR 97231 FAX 629-0665
>
This is due to default PolicyKit settings that do not allow you to do
certain things when logged in remotely. You can change the policy in
System -> Preferences -> Authorizations - of course, you have to do it
when logged in locally.
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