Description of problem: When i connect to a machine with "ssh -Y machine" and then use a command like "system-config-network" the X11 connection rejectes because of wrong authentication. Using the tools without consolehelper works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): usermode-1.74-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: $ sudo system-config-network -> Works as expected $ ssh -Y localhost $ sudo system-config-network X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. The application 'system-config-network-gui' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. $ sudo /usr/bin/system-config-network X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. The application 'system-config-network-gui' lost its connection to the display localhost:10.0; most likely the X server was shut down or you killed/destroyed the application. $ ls -l /usr/bin/system-config-network lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 2. Nov 18:19 /usr/bin/system-config-network -> consolehelper $ sudo /usr/sbin/system-config-network -> works fine
This behaviour is of course present in RHEL4 as well.
And still in FC4 also -- changing component from FC3 to FC4
Still present in rawhide as of today. Changing component from FC4 to devel.
Ping -- still in FC5. Is there any chance we could get this fixed? Jindrich, or is this is the wrong component?
Hello Thorsten, yes, it seems like a wrong component, sudo needs fixing to allow executing via ssh. But I doubt that someone would like to implement such feature since launching X applications via sudo isn't very convenient. Reassigning.
Well, there are other distributions taht don't even allow root logins and do everything ^w a lot though sudo. So the statement "launching X applications via sudo isn't very convenient" is a bit irritating. Well, I don't care as long as it get's fixed.
(In reply to comment #6) > Well, there are other distributions taht don't even allow root logins and do > everything ^w a lot though sudo. So the statement "launching X applications via > sudo isn't very convenient" is a bit irritating. To be more precise I meant launching X apps under Fedora via sudo isn't very convenient (because of userhelper/consolehelper authentization design, especially the system-config-* stuff).
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 164671 ***