On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:32 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote:
On Fri, Apr 2, 2010 at 12:15 AM, Craig White
<craigwhite(a)azapple.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 00:07 -0400, Kwan Lowe wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Craig White <craigwhite(a)azapple.com>
wrote:
>>
>> > yes, I can see what you mean
>> >
>> > truth be told, for a completely static NIC, many of us
'old-timers'
>> > would turn off NetworkManager, turn on 'network' put
'ONBOOT=yes' in the
>> > configuration and be done with it.
>> >
>> > ;-)
>> >
>> > Craig
Hmm.. Got a more interesting one now..
I'm logged in as an LDAP non-privileged user. From the menus, I select
System|Administration|Add/Remove Software. I add a couple packages
such as screen and dialog. On clicking Apply, I am warned:
"You have failed to provide correct authentication. Please check any
passwords or account settings."
I don't see any place to provide this authentication in the menus.
If I exit out and try to run the "gpk-application" (not sure if this
is the correct app) I get a warning that I'm running as a privileged
user.
It's caching my credentials somewhere, because I know that at one
point I was prompted to enter root password.
----
perhaps there was an issue with the original F12 release that would have
gotten fixed if you update to current.
Yes, there is a mechanism to cache credentials - I am not knowledgeable
about this but I think it's about a five minute cache.
If all else fails, you can get a virtual console, su to root (su -) and
then run the tool without any need to get credentials. But I wouldn't
know what the command is to launch packagekit (or whatever it is
called).
Craig
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