I believe you will find that sudo works seamlessly with the version of consolehelper in Fedora Core 1.
In what way? My example -was- on Fedora Core 1.
The problem is that consolehelper tries to use a graphical widget if possible, which fails from inside a sudo on a remote system that's forwarding it's X because root doesn't have the right xauth cookies.
It seems like they now expect these apps to be run in one of two ways: 1) As root, directly calling the /sbin version 2) As a normal user who knows the root password, calling consolehelper
Using sudo in the way we've become accustomed leads to root calling the /usr/bin version (since sudo creates an environment with the user's path, but root's authority), which behaves unexpectedly.
Making sure that /sbin and /usr/sbin are -before- /bin and /usr/bin in the path of sudo-users would avoid this, but an earlier poster suggested that other things want that order to be reversed. Also, I could just start typing the absolute paths all the time, but that's a lot of wasted keystrokes that could be put to better use pestering this list. ;)
