Bug 166807 – redhat-config-xfree86 ---noui prompts for root password in a GUI popup box

Bug 166807 - redhat-config-xfree86 ---noui prompts for root password in a GUI popup box

Summary:	redhat-config-xfree86 ---noui prompts for root password in a GUI popup box

Status:	CLOSED WORKSFORME

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Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	redhat-config-xfree86 (Show other bugs)
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Version:	3.0
Hardware:	All Linux

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Assigned To:	Søren Sandmann Pedersen
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Reported:	2005-08-25 18:24 EDT by David Meleedy
Modified:	2014-06-18 05:07 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2005-10-06 16:32:35 EDT
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Description David Meleedy 2005-08-25 18:24:22 EDT

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050512 Firefox/1.0.4

Description of problem:
redhat-config-xfree86 --noui
run as a non-root user, pops up a GUI box 

Query
"You are attempting to run "redhat-config-xfree86" which requires administrative privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so."



Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
redhat-config-xfree86-0.7.7-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. run redhat-config-xfree86 --noui as a non-root user


Actual Results:  Pops up a GUI asking for a root password.

Expected Results:  A tty query for the a root password would have been appropriate.

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Comment 1 David Meleedy 2005-10-06 16:32:35 EDT

setting the DISPLAY variable to a blank string seems to fix this problem.

export DISPLAY=
redhat-config-xfree86 --noui

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