RE: You are not allowed to access the system configuration...

Thanks for the tip. In the meantime, however, the problem also disappeared
when I added the following lines to my /etc/rc.conf file:

gnome_enable="YES"
dbus_enable="YES"
polkitd_enable="YES"
hald_enable="YES"

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Kiffin Rex Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands


-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Garnacho [mailto:carlosg@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:50 AM
To: Kiffin Gish
Cc: gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: You are not allowed to access the system configuration...


On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 19:32 +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote:
For some reason, since recently I am unable to access certain menu
items from Gnome. For example:

System > Administration > Users and Groups

Results in the following error message:

The configuration could not be loaded
You are not allowed to access the system configuration.

Used to be that I would be presented a dialogue to enter the root
password, but that is not happening anymore.

Since g-s-t 2.18.x, access to the tools is determined through
DBus policies, there are two possible setups:

1) Having a policy
in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf to allow
access to a group where you should include all the users you
want to grant access, like:

<policy group="sysadmin">
<allow
send_interface="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends"/>
<allow
send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends"/>
</policy>


2) remove any group policy in that file to only allow
access to
the root user and modify .desktop files for all the
tools to use
gksu, this is the option Ubuntu has taken, for example.

Hope this helps.

Regards,
Carlos



Any ideas how to fix this?


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