Bug 688690 - allow wheel group to run usermode apps with user password
Summary: allow wheel group to run usermode apps with user password
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: usermode
Version: 15
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Miloslav Trmač
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-03-17 18:02 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:27 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version: usermode-1.107-1.fc15
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-04-15 21:34:43 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2011-03-17 18:02:06 UTC
Description of problem:

Now that we're adding a checkbox to add users to the wheel group, and the Administrator bit in the GNOME user dialog does this as well.

From https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=462161:

We probably also want something similar for pam -- add "UGROUPS=wheel" to
/etc/security/console.apps/config-util, and for any appropriate
usermode-enabled apps which don't have that already.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

usermode-1.106.1-3.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:

100%

Expected results:


Additional info:

Comment 1 Miloslav Trmač 2011-03-31 20:59:52 UTC
Thanks for your report.

With sudo giving every member of wheel root privileges anyway, I suppose there's no point in delaying this change any further.

Has anybody take care of the documentation of this change yet?

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2011-03-31 21:31:40 UTC
usermode-1.107-1.fc15 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 15.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/usermode-1.107-1.fc15

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2011-04-02 02:47:39 UTC
Package usermode-1.107-1.fc15:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 15 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing usermode-1.107-1.fc15'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/usermode-1.107-1.fc15
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 4 Bill Nottingham 2011-04-05 16:50:20 UTC
I've written a brief blurb at https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Documentation_System_Daemons_Beat#Administrator_users.

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2011-04-15 21:34:33 UTC
usermode-1.107-1.fc15 has been pushed to the Fedora 15 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.


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