Bevan C. Bennett said: >> 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. Well, I just double checked to make sure my memory wasn't failing, but it worksforme. As a user: $ sudo reboot Password: and it works. Now that was a machine I SSH'ed into with X-Forwarding, doesn't have X installed locally. So I tried on my laptop (with X): [whooper@butters whooper]$ which up2date /usr/bin/up2date [whooper@butters whooper]$ sudo which up2date /usr/bin/up2date [whooper@butters whooper]$ sudo up2date <forward, forward, checking, no updates, blah blah> [whooper@butters whooper]$ When using sudo I also get Logwatch entries along the lines of: userhelper[2487]: running '/usr/sbin/up2date -u' with root privileges on behalf of 'root' Maybe you have old versions of config files left over? [whooper@butters whooper]$ grep usermode /var/log/rpmpkgs usermode-1.69-1.i386.rpm usermode-gtk-1.69-1.i386.rpm [whooper@butters whooper]$ -- William Hooper
