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Andrewski
OK, in the interest of space, I moved a bunch of partitions around my HDs... to make a long story short, I had to break my install but I got it back with a bit of hassle and reinstalling a few packages.

Now I have a small problem: when I try to run MCC as regular user, it no longer asks me for the root password, but brings up a window titled "Error" that simply says "Insufficient rights." My typical response is something like, "I know; just ask me for the password... I'll show you rights!"

What is your hopefully-more-friendly-and-helpful response? 04.gif
Qchem
It sounds like you might have broken the package that prompts for the root password, I can't remember its name. Just to check it's nothing silly could you post the permissions of mcc (obtain them with a ls -l on the directory that contains mcc).
Andrewski
CODE
root:/$ ll `which mcc`
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 8 May  2 02:57 /usr/sbin/mcc -> drakconf*
root:/$ ll `which drakconf`
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root root 22 May  2 02:57 /usr/sbin/drakconf -> ../../usr/bin/drakconf*
root:/$ ll /usr/bin/drakconf
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1408 May  2 02:49 /usr/bin/drakconf*

Seems ok to me...
What's the name of the program that prompts for the root password? Or what's the name of the pkg (to anyone else who's reading)?
fissy
i don't know which program mandrake uses, but i know that you can use 'gnomesu' to similar effect.
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