From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 Description of problem: consolehelper is intendet to autheticate for root rights to run priveleged programs. If root password contains a leading space, its not accepted by the graphical query window, the command line incarnation works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): usermode-1.70-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.under gnome choose privileged program, for example "red hat"->"Systems settings"->"Network" 2.type in root password with leading spaces 3.the graphical password query window does not disappear and gain access Additional info:
*** Bug 133805 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Created attachment 113723 [details] The patch to fix the leading space problem This patch fixes the the leading spaces problem for usermode-1.68, but should be applicable to usermode-1.70-2 as well.
Should this be moved to 'devel'?
(I don't think we're likely to patch this for FC2.... while root passwords are security-related in an inherent sort of way, it's basically a bug fix. Even if it is a sensible good bug fix.)
Nope, this is fixed already in devel for some time. This won't affect security at all, note that the patch actually prevents usermode from deleting leading spaces from passwords, what is pretty odd as the authentization will work with any authentization tool with passwords with leading spaces but not with usermode. I strongly recommend to patch the FC2 version of usermode as the bug seems to be very annoying in some cases.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 133805 ***
I'm not authorized to access bug #133805. Does that need to remain locked?