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From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030529 Description of problem: When, as a normail user I start the redhat-control-network app, I am not prompted for root password. When I try to change the current profile, it fails, and I can see that the program has insufficient permission to manipulate files in /etc/sysconfig. If I start the command as root, it works fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): redhat-config-network-1.2.0-2 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.log in as normal user 2.start redhat-control-netwrok 3.try to change profile Actual Results: The program refuses to change profiles, and the debug info shows that it would need root priviliges to do it. Expected Results: It should prompt for root password, then change the profile successfully. Additional info: I think the root of the problem is that redhat-control-network has some functionality that should be accessible to normal users, and that is why it does not ask for root password by default. However, the change profile operation does need root permission (and i belive it should, too), but redhat-control-network is not smart enough to realize it. I am filing it a Normail, instead of Low, beacuse even though it has a workaround, it is probably not obvious to the casual users, that are targeted with this snazzy tool.
please try the bugfix release on: http://people.redhat.com/redhat-config-network
I've tried it, but unfortunately it seems to have regressed. It asks for the root password, and runs with no errors. It also replaces /etc/resolv.conf correctly. However, it does not change the ifconfig data. I've poked around, and it seems that while the shipping version links the ifcfg-eth0_variant file from the profile as ifcfg-eth0 to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, this new version does not change the name, and links there as ifcfg-eth0_variant, and the ifup/ifdown scripts cannot handle this.
As I no longer have a RH9 system ready to test it, I can only assume that the issued update fixes the problem. Closing bug.