Bug 22705

Summary: helix-update won't work as normal user. Different behaviour than RH 6.2
Product: [Retired] Red Hat Linux Reporter: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg>
Component: usermodeAssignee: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: David Lawrence <dkl>
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strace log of helix-update none

Description Yusuf Goolamabbas 2000-12-22 01:59:35 UTC 
Hi, I have installed RH 7.0 with all errata/updates and Helix Gnome 1.2
When I click on the helix-update icon or run helix-update from a shell as a
non-root user. I am prompted "You must be root to use Helix GNOME update"

This behaviour is different from that of RH 6.2

I have a strace log of helix-update also which I am going to try and send
to you. Can't figure out how to attach messages to bugzilla
Comment 1 Yusuf Goolamabbas 2000-12-22 02:00:41 UTC 
Created attachment 6657 [details]
strace log of helix-update
Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2000-12-22 05:18:30 UTC 
1) An strace of any setuid program done as a normal user is not useful
   (setuid will not succeed in this case)
2) We don't provide helix-update; perhaps you should check with Helix Code?
Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2000-12-22 05:20:03 UTC 
FWIW, it doesn't appear that whatever you're running is using usermode
at all, which would certainly explain the error.
Comment 4 Nalin Dahyabhai 2001-01-16 02:47:55 UTC 
The binary is not running with root privileges.  Since we don't ship the
package, we can't really fix it.