Bug 176585

Summary: Use consolehelper
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Rahul Sundaram <sundaram>
Component: yumAssignee: Jeremy Katz <katzj>
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Description Rahul Sundaram 2005-12-27 04:47:12 UTC 
Description of problem:

Unlike up2date yum doesnt prompt for password when run as non-root user


Actual results:

Run yum as non-root user and you just get a simple message that you should do
so. We can do better


Expected results:

Yum should prompt for password

Additional info:

Consolehelper is used by up2date, all the system-config-* and generally the
Fedora way to do administrative actions. While this might be a generic yum
feature since consolehelper might be available on distributions that yum
supports it still can be a optional compile time or run time dependency.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-04-19 20:32:51 UTC 
If you run other console admin tools, eg, lokkit, you don't get prompted -- not
going to change this.