On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 12:36, "Muñoz Aparicio, Esther" wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-06-02 at 09:09, Muñoz Aparicio, Esther wrote: > > > Everything is working fine as root, but now, every time me or my > > > husband try to, for example, shut down the computer (when logged > as > > > ourselves), Gnome complains that we have insufficent rights. The > same > > > happens with any program that used to ask for root password when > > > invoked from Gnome: the pop-up message says "Insufficient rights" > and > > > that's all. > > > > That's cause to invoke the shutdown command, > > you have to be root! Unless of course you grant access > > to the "shutdown" command using sudo. > > > > Alternatively, you can try "poweroff" or "reboot" > > Out of the box, you must be superuser to use "reboot" or "poweroff". > In run > level 0 or 6 they call shutdown with the appropriate flag ie -h or -r. > Example > output below My Bad again.. :-( I think it works for me because I am a member of the wheel group. > Mike, Ow, et al, > > The problem we have is that logging as myself, I used to be able to, > for example, start up2date from the applet in the gnome panel, which > would ask for root password. I typed it and then it ran up2date. Now, > after moving /home and /usr to a new partition, this is not happening > anymore. As soon as I click on the up2date applet, it pops a > "insufficient rights" message and that's all. And this same message > happens for all the programs on Gnome that used to ask for root > password, and also when we press "Shut Down" from the hat menu and > select Shut down or Restart computer. Hmm.. that may be a case of your "/usr/bin/consolehelper" not being set up properly?? Cos all the commands are actually soft links ls -l /usr/bin/reboot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Aug 18 2003 /usr/bin/reboot -> consolehelp ls -l /sbin/reboot lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 18 2003 /sbin/reboot -> halt ls -l /sbin/poweroff lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 4 Aug 18 2003 /sbin/poweroff -> halt Halt needs superuser priv. consolehelper is the one that pops up the dialog for you to type in the root password. can you check if your consolehelper link is still pointing to the right partition or directory etc?? what about the /etc/pam.d/halt or reboot or poweroff or shutdown files?? Mine has cat /etc/pam.d/halt #%PAM-1.0 auth sufficient pam_rootok.so auth required pam_console.so #auth required pam_stack.so service=system-auth account required pam_permit.so
