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
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3
Classification: Red Hat
Component: redhat-config-xfree86
Version: 3.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Søren Sandmann Pedersen
QA Contact:
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-08-25 22:24 UTC by David Meleedy
Modified: 2014-06-18 09:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2005-10-06 20:32:35 UTC
Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:

Attachments (Terms of Use)

Description David Meleedy 2005-08-25 22:24:22 UTC 
From Bugzilla Helper:
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.

Additional info:
Comment 1 David Meleedy 2005-10-06 20:32:35 UTC 
setting the DISPLAY variable to a blank string seems to fix this problem.

export DISPLAY=
redhat-config-xfree86 --noui
Note You need to log in before you can comment on or make changes to this bug.