Bevan C. Bennett said: > William Hooper wrote: >> 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): > > Do both systems have X installed? It looks like either one -not- having > X will suppress consolehelper's graphical form. If you just run > /usr/bin/up2date as yourself, what happens then (I get a popup window)? In the SSH case, no. Only one has X installed. In the second case (below) I'm doing it on a local machine with X. Using SSH I get a text prompt, GUI on local. I'll see what I can do about sneaking a laptop out of work tonight, that way I can try it on two machines w/X. >> [whooper@butters whooper]$ sudo up2date >> <forward, forward, checking, no updates, blah blah> >> [whooper@butters whooper]$ > > That looks pretty reasonable. > [bevan@wallace ~]> sudo /usr/bin/up2date > Password: > X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication. > >> Maybe you have old versions of config files left over? > > These were all clean installs, although I do go back and replace some > config files to make the system play properly in the environment. > The relevant-ish are: > /etc/nsswitch.conf > /etc/ldap.conf > /etc/pam.d/system-auth > /etc/sysconfig/authconfig > /etc/ssh/sshd_config > > It's got my curiosity now... I want to know why our systems seemingly > behave differently. If I had to guess I would say somethin gin system-auth or authconfig, but I'm not sure. Again, when I get home I will check these files out and see if I can see anything about them. -- William Hooper
