Bug 142648

Summary:	system-config-* tools only work through ssh with sudo when used without consolehelper
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora>
Component:	sudo	Assignee:	Karel Zak <kzak>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Version:	rawhide	CC:	djuran, jnovy
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Description Thorsten Leemhuis 2004-12-11 15:18:10 UTC

Description of problem:
When i connect to a machine with "ssh -Y machine" and then use a command like
"system-config-network" the X11 connection rejectes because of wrong
authentication. Using the tools without consolehelper works fine.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
usermode-1.74-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
$ sudo system-config-network
-> Works as expected 
$ ssh -Y localhost
$ sudo system-config-network
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
The application 'system-config-network-gui' lost its connection to the display
localhost:10.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
$ sudo /usr/bin/system-config-network
X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
The application 'system-config-network-gui' lost its connection to the display
localhost:10.0;
most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed
the application.
$ ls -l /usr/bin/system-config-network
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 13  2. Nov 18:19 /usr/bin/system-config-network ->
consolehelper
$ sudo /usr/sbin/system-config-network
-> works fine

Comment 1 David Juran 2005-06-20 08:20:38 UTC

This behaviour is of course present in RHEL4 as well.

Comment 2 Thorsten Leemhuis 2005-06-20 08:26:49 UTC

And still in FC4 also -- changing component from FC3 to FC4

Comment 3 Thorsten Leemhuis 2005-11-18 19:32:00 UTC

Still present in rawhide as of today. Changing component from FC4 to devel.

Comment 4 Thorsten Leemhuis 2006-04-01 07:52:31 UTC

Ping -- still in FC5. Is there any chance we could get this fixed? Jindrich, or
is this is the wrong component?

Comment 5 Jindrich Novy 2006-04-06 12:59:34 UTC

Hello Thorsten,

yes, it seems like a wrong component, sudo needs fixing to allow executing via
ssh. But I doubt that someone would like to implement such feature since
launching X applications via sudo isn't very convenient. Reassigning.

Comment 6 Thorsten Leemhuis 2006-04-08 17:21:19 UTC

Well, there are other distributions taht don't even allow root logins and do
everything ^w a lot though sudo. So the statement "launching X applications via
sudo isn't very convenient" is a bit irritating.

Well, I don't care as long as it get's fixed.

Comment 7 Jindrich Novy 2006-04-08 19:43:08 UTC

(In reply to comment #6)
> Well, there are other distributions taht don't even allow root logins and do
> everything ^w a lot though sudo. So the statement "launching X applications via
> sudo isn't very convenient" is a bit irritating.

To be more precise I meant launching X apps under Fedora via sudo isn't very
convenient (because of userhelper/consolehelper authentization design,
especially the system-config-* stuff).

Comment 8 Karel Zak 2006-04-09 19:42:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164671 ***