Re: [Setup-tool-hackers] [scaramanga@barrysworld.com:[Gnome-admin-tools] Build problem]

[Scaramanga <scaramanga barrysworld com>]

On 2001.01.11 17:28:35 +0000 Jacob "Ulysses" Berkman wrote:
> Scaramanga <scaramanga@barrysworld.com> writes:
> 
> > The anoncvs version of control-center has a build bug, in the root-manager
> > component. Attached is a .diff that hopefully fixes it. (Works for me) I 
> > have not checked any other version of control-center for this bug.
> 
> Can you reply with the exact error message?

OK, if you look at the .diff, there was a hard-coded path, to root-manager
in root-manager/root-manager.h:

#define UH_PATH "/gnome/sbin/root-manager"


> > I also discovered another issue which I havent been able to work around yet,
> > I have the helix-setup-tools module (also from anoncvs), and whenever I go to
> > the "System" section and click on any of the items, I get a never ending loop
> > of pam authentication errors:
> 
> You probably need to make the root-manager setuid root.  It isn't done
> by default since it hasn't been audited at all yet, but I don't know
> if this is the case.

Before I made it SUID root, I got an error telling me to do so, the PAM errors
happened after I set the SUID bit, and happened no matter what user i ran it as,
root or no.

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