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

[Kiffin Gish <kiffin gish planet nl>]

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"

-- 
Kiffin Rex Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carlos Garnacho [mailto:carlosg gnome org] 
> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:50 AM
> To: Kiffin Gish
> Cc: gnome-list gnome org
> 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?
> >