Description of problem: You can't access firestarter from gnome menu. As soon as you select it you don't get the root password prompt, instead you get kicked out and a box says: Insufficient privileges, you must have root user privileges to use firestarter Its a major problem as you have to run gnome as root to configure firestarter. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Its fc6 version (all that is available), need a fixed fc7 version asap. How reproducible: Try clicking it get the message Steps to Reproduce: 1.Click firestarter in gnome menu 2.Get kicked off message 3. Actual results: Same Expected results: You should be able to access firestarter, it should ask you for the root password Additional info:
The firestarter rpm is firestarter-1.0.3-14.fc6, i.e. the old fc6 one. f7 seems to have changed the pam configuration. Specifically, /lib/security/pam_stack.so is no longer present and /etc/pam.d/firestarter refers to it. Some other files in /etc/pam.d have the contents:- #%PAM-1.0 auth include config-util account include config-util session include config-util editing /etc/pam.d/firestarter to these contents seems to work but I do not know if it introduces any security issues.
It should be properly built as a F7 package, especially considering that a clean F7 install I read on fedoraforums installs it by default!
Temporary Fix Login as root mv /etc/pam.d/firestarter /etc/pam.d/_firestarter cp /etc/pam.d/system-config-rootpassword /etc/pam.d/firestarter Problem solved! A backup of firestarter is kept as _firestarter I figured copying the system-config-rootpassword configuration was a safe bet.