Guest neill Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 i'm having a strange problem where i can't open any applications that require root privileges (such as mcc, rpm installer, system log viewer) when i'm logged in as another user. usually i'd just load the program from a menu and be asked to type in the root password. now none of the programs start. nothing happens. i've tried running them from a term and still nothing. but if i su to root and run them from a term or log in to x as root everything is fine. i think the problem may have been caused yesterday when i had a bit of a clean-up and removed some programs i never use. i think i may have accidentally removed something i shouldn't have. the only package i could find (in mcc->install software) that i thouhgt was relevant the problem was mdkauth. i installed this but i still have the problem. any ideas? thanks. i'm using mdk9.0 with gnome2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoonChild Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 No real idea but mdkauth sound like an important one. I couldn't find documentation for it, but I guess it builds a database of people it will authorize for use of root access from local resources. Sorry I couldn't help more :( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest neill Posted January 16, 2003 Report Share Posted January 16, 2003 thanks for trying anyway :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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