Sharon Kimble wrote:
Randy Chrismon wrote:You are right and I specified the wrong thing. Let me put it this way: any administrative tool off the task bar menu that would require the root user used to prompt for the root user password. Now they only throw up a message box saying insufficient rights. This behavior just happened one day and _may_ have resulted from something an apt-get dist-upgrade did. I have been totally unable to find anything in message archives or documentation that addresses this. Finally, I have a _very_ vauge recollection from about a bazillion years ago that there is a configuration file, somewhere, that listed applications that should prompt for the root password - this is something different than execution privileges file rights. I may be dreaming about this configuration file since I can't find anything about it, either. In any event, I want the "old" behavior where my administrative tools prompted me for the root password.
Sorry, should have been clearer. The System Tools are the ones off the KDE or Gnome menu -- you know, clicking on the Red Hat button. Included are the Network Device Control, Printing Configuration, things like that. Of course, I can start many of them by going to su and typing the command at the shell prompt but it was far more convenient to click on the menu item and be prompted for the su password. Thanks. Randy
Network Device Control from the 'System Tools' menu does not ask for the password, so you're essentially loading it just as a user, whereas if you go to 'System Settings' and load 'Network' then it asks for the password and you can use it as root.
Sharon.
I very much appreciate the feedback.
Randy
