Bug 121900 - network-admin fails - requires su
Summary: network-admin fails - requires su
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: x86-64 All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Blocks: 148011
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Reported: 2005-10-09 22:13 UTC by Dan Elder
Modified: 2006-04-21 15:03 UTC (History)
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2005-10-09 22:15 UTC, Dan Elder 		Details
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Description Dan Elder 2005-10-09 22:13:59 UTC 
When I run network-admin (part of networkmanager) as either root or a normal
user I receive an error message dialog indicating that "Could not run "su"".  As
root it will give this message immediately but as a normal user it will ask for
the root password first.  Below the main error is  smaller error stating "Check
that you have permissions to run this command".  I can su as a normal user or
root just fine so that doesn't seem to be the issue.  I'll attach the output of
strace on it as well.
Thanks,
Dan
Comment 1 Dan Elder 2005-10-09 22:15:13 UTC 
Created attachment 52049 [details]
bzipped strace output of running network-admin
Comment 2 JP Rosevear 2005-10-10 14:44:18 UTC 
This is not actually part of network-admin, but rather part of gnome-system-tools
Comment 3 Bill Ricardi 2006-02-11 00:29:06 UTC 
Just to keep it current, I'm having the same, exact issue on a build downloaded this morning. I might up the severity of this a bit, it has direct security implications.
Comment 4 Stanislav Brabec 2006-04-21 15:03:48 UTC 
Drop request filled.