Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 73357
gdmsetup dont ask for root password
Last modified: 2007-04-18 12:46:18 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.5 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020809 Description of problem: gdmsetup dont ask for root password and complain it must be launched as root. As this can be handled with a sudo or su -c, in the "systeme settings" nautilus screen this cannot be workarounded. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. double click on the start-here icon. 2. double click on the system settings icon 3. double click on the login screen Actual Results: a pop-up error window : You must be the superuser (root) to configure GDM. Expected Results: A pop-up window should ask the root password like other icon in the system settings nautilus screen ask.... Additional info:
which version of gdm?
[dnade@enclume ~]# rpm -q gdm gdm-2.4.0.7-6 :)
This should be fixed in the final release.
Not really fixed... It still complains you must be root and dont ask the root password.
I am sitting at a 8.0 box right now and I'm not able to reproduce this bug. Is there anything unusual about your setup?
as u user, a popup window says "You must be the superuser (root) to configure GDM." instead of asking for the root password like other things (like "security level" or "soundcard detection" do..) There is really nothing unusual in my setup.
You implied that you were still seeing this bug in 8.0. Did you install 8.0 fresh or did you upgrade (if so, from what)? Could you give me the output of the following commands % rpm -q usermode gdm % rpm -V usermode gdm % ls -l /usr/bin/gdmsetup Could you run /usr/bin/gdmsetup from a terminal (in X) and see what happens?
Psyche fresh install. [dnade@enclume ~]# rpm -q usermode gdm usermode-1.63-1 gdm-2.4.0.7-13 [dnade@enclume ~]# rpm -V usermode gdm ..?..... /usr/sbin/userhelper ..5....T c /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf zsh: exit 2 rpm -V usermode gdm [dnade@enclume ~]# ls -l =gdmsetup -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 74646 Sep 6 04:23 /usr/sbin/gdmsetup
Okay ! I understand all ! as you can see in my previous message the first gdmsetup in my $PATH is the /usr/sbin/gdmsetup not the /usr/bin/gdmsetup ! I will change the order of the directories in my environment. We can close this bug with a NOTABUG, but can you do something against this behaviour ? I mean, there is surely a way to workaround the fact that the /usr/sbin is before /usr/bin in the $PATH of a user...
That's the whole way the stuff works though, it's all based on the /usr/bin links... I don't remember the rationale but there is some reason for it (I think so root account works properly)