Bug 79878
| Summary: | Up2date --nox is ignored | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 | Reporter: | Mike Gahagan <mgahagan> |
| Component: | up2date | Assignee: | Adrian Likins <alikins> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Red Hat Satellite QA List <satqe-list> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 2.1 | ||
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| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2003-01-15 04:42:02 UTC | Type: | --- |
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fixed with a change to userhelper circa 8.0. This is a userhelper bug. It doesnt understand the concept of "--nox". It decided to pop up a gui window or not itself (in 7.x/2.1AS) The 8.0 version fixes this. As far as I know, there are no plans to backport this bug fix. Thanks Adrian! I never thought to look into it to see if it was userhelper and not up2date. /usr/sbin/up2date [options] does in fact work as expected when run as root (even without --nox) on AS w/ errata. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.6 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020830 Description of problem: up2date will under certain situations completely ignore --nox and fail to run because of X11 authentication errors. The sshd on the server described below is configured in a totally stock manner. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): up2date-2.7.61-7.x.2 on AS 2.1 w/ all applicable errata How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install AS 2.1 2.Apply all errata (as of 12-2002) 3.Attempt to run up2date through a remote ssh session Actual Results: [mpg@prowler mpg]$ ssh mpg.redhat.com mpg.redhat.com's password: Last login: Tue Dec 17 14:28:35 2002 from prowler.rdu.redhat.com [mpg@phoenix mpg]$ su - Password: [root@phoenix root]# up2date X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [root@phoenix root]# up2date --nox X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). [root@phoenix root]# up2date -u --nox X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. Gdk-ERROR **: X connection to localhost:10.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown). Expected Results: up2date --nox should have worked regardless of if an X display is available or not. (In this case X was not available, no X app will run until the root shell is exited) Additional info: I got the same results regardless if a user was logged into the console or not. I understand that logging in via ssh and running su - will cause X authentication problems that prevent X displays from being forwarded, but --nox should not care about if X11 is available or not. running 'up2date --nox' as a normal user will present a GUI password dialog to the client, upon successfull authentication it will proceed to work in text mode. I feel this is also broken.. i.e. I shouldn't be using X to pop up a password window when I specify --nox.