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

[jacob berkman <jacob ximian com>]

Scaramanga <scaramanga@barrysworld.com> writes:

> 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"

Ah right.  Ok I'll fix this.

> > > 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.

I don't know much about pam sadly.  All I can say is that it works on
my machine :/

IIRC there is some stuff to output more verbose messages in the
root-manager, you might try turning that on.

Jacob
-- 
"The people who made the Macintosh produced a miracle, but that
 doesn't mean their code was wonderful." -- Bob Cringely


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