On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 09:10 +0200, Markku Kolkka wrote:
Ed Greshko kirjoitti viestissään (lähetysaika perjantai, 7. marraskuuta 2008):
I ask this since for as long as I can remember I've modified my PATH and have /sbin and /usr/sbin right after ~/bin at the very beginning. Since it has been so long that I have had it this way I may not know I have a problem...or maybe I'm ignoring it.
Doing that breaks every program that uses consolehelper to ask the root password when started as ordinary user. What happens when you run e.g. system-config-time from command line as non-root?
It executes /usr/bin/system-config-time, a symbolic link to /usr/bin/consolehelper, same as it does without the change to $PATH. What's the problem?
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