From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: When run from the gnome menu (Programs/System) dateconfig fails to start when run as a non-root user. From the command line it asks for a root password. Dateconfig should pop up a gnome root password box to ask for the password. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start dateconfig from the gnome menu 2. 3. Additional info:
I should add that none of the programs which require passwords run from the gnome/programs/system menu as a non-root user. I'm sure this worked in RH7.2. They shouldn't be on the menu if they won't run. Also try: "Service configuration" "Internet configuration wizard" "Locale chooser" "User capability configurator" "Firewall-config"
You need to install usermode-gtk. It has been split into two packages, so the GUI one that pops up and prompts you for the root pw is in a new rpm. It wasn't getting pulled into a default install for Skipjack (it was left out of the comps file) but has now been fixed in our internal trees. Please reopen this report if installing usermode-gtk doesn't fix the problem.