Bug 246040
Summary: | can not use programs as root from user account | ||
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Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | ashley pritchard <linuxpen> |
Component: | fedora-usermgmt | Assignee: | Enrico Scholz <rh-bugzilla> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
Severity: | low | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | low | ||
Version: | 7 | ||
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Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2007-08-16 22:00:59 UTC | Type: | --- |
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Description
ashley pritchard
2007-06-28 00:41:36 UTC
are you really sure that this is the right component? (In reply to comment #1) > are you really sure that this is the right component? no i am not sure it is the correct component at all. OK I was at work today & was thinking about what I was doing before my problem of not being able to run programs as root from my user acct & did a little bit of research on the issue. In this process I cam over the suggestion to edit /root/.bashrc & add: export XAUTHORITY= /home/awp/.Xauthority so I did. The result was: export '/home/awp/.Xauthority': not a valid identifier The next suggestion I found was to use the command '-d' which just did not work at all because it was not recognized at all. Then the next suggestion was to use xhost to verify that it is set to permit connections from machine. The result was: access control enabled, only autherized clients can connect INET: localhost.localdomane SI: localuser:awp Then the next suggestion I found was back to 'xhost +localhost' before useing su to log in to root & then doing 'export DISPLAY=:0' aft loging in as root. Well this did not work better that the last time I used the command xhost +localhost. Then I found another suggestion which is to use the command 'xauth merge /home/awp/.Xauthority' The result: xauth merge /home/awp/.Xauthority xauth: creating new authority file /home/awp/.Xauthority xauth: (argv):1: merge: unable to open file /home/awp/.Xauthority So none of the suggestions seem that I could find seemed to work for me & the last suggestion was to uninstall & reinstall X. I did not want to do this so I started thinking & recalling what exactly I did before this issue occurred. Other than installing DVD & mp3 support I was messing with xnest attempting to open GDM in a nested window so that I could graphically login as root via my user account. So I uninstalled xorg-x11-server-xnest but that did not resolve my issue. Then I remembered that I had changed my intel integrated graphics driver from the 'Intel - Experimental mode setting driver for Intel integrated graphics chipsets' to the 'i810 intel integrated graphics chipset including i810, i815, 830m, 845G, 852GM, 865G, 915G, 915GM, 945GM'. So I switched the graphics driver back the the 'experimental' driver. That did not work either. Then I had found a file /root/.bash_history which contains the history of bash commands made in the terminal. A series of commands that I had entered jarred my memory. I was attempting to get another desktop manager installed call Enlightenment & int the process one of the dependencies was XFree86. When I attempted to install XFree86 it required several directories to be created: /usr/X11R6/bin/mkfontdir and /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth so I had created those directories. And that is when thiss issue started occurring. SO THE SOLUTION TO MY ISSUE: was to delete /X11R6/bin/xauth & /mkfontdir in the /usr directory. Now I am able to use su root to login as root from my user account once again so that I can use programs that require root. Thanks for all the attempts to help me. THIS IS NOT A BUG....SORRY |