Bug 61833

Summary:	Apps requiring root privelidges do not ask for root password
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Public Beta	Reporter:	Alex Boag-Munroe <alex.munroe>
Component:	kdeadmin	Assignee:	Tim Powers <timp>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Ben Levenson <benl>
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Description Alex Boag-Munroe 2002-03-25 01:04:51 UTC

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/2.99 (3.0 rc3); Linux)

Description of problem:
When trying to run any app that requires root access rights from within KDE, the app does not run and the root password prompt does not appear.  Instead, if I switch back to tty1 (I login from text mode) a password prompt continuously scrolls up the screen.  If I login in graphical mode, I have noticed an error about an unrecognised password in the messages log.  If I run the apps as root from a konsole, it works fine.  Looks like kdesu is broken.

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run any program that requires root, ie, neat.
2. Password prompt should appear, it does not.
3. App does not run, or if it does, it does not work due to incorrect privelidges.
 

Actual Results:  No root password prompt.

Expected Results:  A prompt for the root password should appear.

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Comment 1 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer 2002-03-25 13:14:45 UTC

This is because they use consolehelper, which in turn needs its gui. 
The fix is to install usermode-gtk (or better yet, consolehelper-qt from 
ftp://ftp.bero.org/pub/consolehelper/). 
 
Assigning to timp so the comps file can be adapted.

Comment 2 Tim Powers 2002-03-25 13:57:15 UTC

This will be fixed in the next release. I'm resolving this as RAWHIDE.

Tim

Comment 3 Tim Powers 2002-03-26 17:31:57 UTC

*** Bug 61963 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Tim Powers 2002-03-29 12:04:15 UTC

*** Bug 62294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***