Re: RHEL Weirdness: Lost superuser privileges?

From: Spamless (Spamless_at_Nil.nil)
Date: 05/29/04 

Date: Sat, 29 May 2004 05:17:25 GMT

In article <ZkQtc.12688$Yr.10948@okepread04>, C. Andrews La Varre wrote:

> System Settings. The system politely asks me for the root password, I
> enter it and away we go.
>
> + Then I had a crash and reinstalled RHEL 3.0. AFAIK, installed the same
> options.
>
> Now, if andy tries to access, say, Display settings under System
> Settings, the system rudely declares "Insufficient Privileges!" And
> that's it.

What "politely" asked you? Does that use consolehelper (a programme
which others can use and which, if they give the right password,
runs programmes which the user, him/herself cannot run)?

Are the programmes you are interested in registered with consolehelper?
Is that set up right for the users?

If it uses consolehelper, try

 man consolehelper