Bug 62951 – problems when consolehelper is started in background

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Bug 62951 - problems when consolehelper is started in background

Summary:	problems when consolehelper is started in background

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	usermode (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Nalin Dahyabhai
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Reported:	2002-04-08 07:07 EDT by Gerald Teschl
Modified:	2007-04-18 12:41 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2002-04-08 07:07:23 EDT
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Description Gerald Teschl 2002-04-08 07:07:18 EDT

Suppose you want to start printconf-gui from a text terminal using:

[gerald@soliton bin]$ printconf-gui &
[1] 6063
[gerald@soliton bin]$ You are attempting to run "printconf-gui" which requires
superuser
privileges, but more information is needed in order to do so.
Password for root:

If you start typing, your password will appear in plain on the screen and
it will be stored in the bash history. Consolehelper should dedect such
a situation and bring up a graphical pasword promt instead
(if possible or else fail).

Comment 1 Gerald Teschl 2002-05-08 14:55:49 EDT

Seems to work in 7.3?

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