Bug 75234 - Authenication keys are activated for root user??
Summary: Authenication keys are activated for root user??
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: usermode
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jindrich Novy
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-10-05 19:29 UTC by Shane R. Stixrud
Modified: 2013-07-02 22:57 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

Fixed In Version: 1.77-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2005-01-20 13:36:26 UTC
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Description Shane R. Stixrud 2002-10-05 19:29:59 UTC 
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020830

Description of problem:
It seems that the new RedHat 8.0 authenication function (which grants access to
normal users to do administrative tasks) activates even when running gnome as root.

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


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Login as root.
2.Run a program like redhat-config-xfree86
3.Notice that the authenication keys have appeared on the pannel.
	

Actual Results: Program runs that is not needed.

Expected Results:  For authenication no to be needed for the root user.
Additional info:
Comment 1 Havoc Pennington 2002-10-05 20:34:52 UTC 
(Note that logging in to the full GUI as root is not recommended.)
Comment 2 Jindrich Novy 2005-01-12 10:08:31 UTC 
The icon is no more appearing when logged as root. Fixed in CVS.
Comment 3 Jindrich Novy 2005-01-20 13:36:26 UTC 
and now built.
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