Andrewski Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted May 2, 2004 Report Share Posted May 2, 2004 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). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewski Posted May 2, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2004 (edited) 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)? Edited May 2, 2004 by Andrewski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fissy Posted May 2, 2004 Report Share Posted May 2, 2004 i don't know which program mandrake uses, but i know that you can use 'gnomesu' to similar effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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