root Authorization fails. Fedora 10
 

When I change the time for example... or update the system I expect a pop-up prompting for my root password to appear, but it doesn't. Instead noting happens or is says that I don't have privileges to do that.

Doing the things under the console as root works fine, but I want to use the GUI again. :(


Thanks in advance.

My kernel is 2.6.27.19-170.2.35.fc10.i686

I'm using GNOME 2.24.3

Can u elaborate exactly what problem u r facing.

from u previous post i guess u r logged in as a regular user & not as root and trying to execute root commands.if that's correct then all u have to do is create a sudo user & then u can run root commands using that user.

as far the GUI goes, i guess u have logged in run level 3 & to switch to run level 5 u have use start x from command line & u will get the GUI.

to make it permanently make changes in /etc/inittab i.e 1d:5:initdefault

If while executing the super user commands in GUI, it is usually done using "sudo". It will ask you for the password but you need to supply your user password, the same that you use to login and not the root password.

It is already set to 5.

to switch between command prompt & GUI use alt+ctrl+function keys

i.e : - alt+ctrl+f1 to f6 are for command line & alt+ctrl+f7 is for GUI.

When was trying to do something whit sudo ... I discovered it doesn't work ...


The tutorials seems not to work :(.

Any ideas ?

suid bit is not set on sudo, so u need to set the suid bit.
But suid bit from sudo is removed for security purpose.

chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo, u should get something like this

---S--X--X *************/usr/bin/sudo

Also u mi should be a sudo user, so do following

vi /etc/sudoers
mi ALL=(ALL) ALL