Bug 89169
| Summary: | Nautilus desktop stays as root after running from command line (as root) | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Peter Davie <peter.davie> |
| Component: | nautilus | Assignee: | Alexander Larsson <alexl> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 9 | CC: | srevivo |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i586 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2003-06-02 12:57:05 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Well, it really shouldn't be managing the desktop if another copy already is. This is fixed in RAWHIDE by the use of a manager selection for the desktop. If anyone is already managing the desktop nautilus won't. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030225 Description of problem: Task: Perform operations as root when logged in as another user. History: The same approach was used in RH8 without the side effects found in RH9 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: To reproduce: 1. open terminal window 2. log on as root 3. run natilus: e.g. ./nautilus & 4. Upon closing nautilus the desktop gets redrawn as root's desktop (not the orignal user) and remains there until a logout is done. Actual Results: Nautilus stays in "root mode" despite the process having been terminated. The temporary workarounds are noted under additional info. Expected Results: The problem here is that this behaviour differs radically from RH8. Arguably RH8 should have behaved in this manner in the first place :-) Additional info: Workaround 1: run nautilus with the --no-desktop option. Workaround 2: live with it and log out. Workaround 3: Do not run as separate process Workaround 4: Create a menu entry like in KDE for "Superuser Nautilus"