Randy Chrismon said: [snip] > I seem to be doing a terrible job of explaining myself. I _did_ misstate > the applications in my question: The System Settings applications off the > main redhat button on the tool bar used to prompt for the root password. > They no longer do so and I'm trying to get that behavior back. > There are console.apps and console.perms files but they do not seem to > address this issue Yes, they do, they just don't appear to be the issue you are having. At a terminal, type: # which system-config-services And give us the output. -- William Hooper