Click on the "Applications" gnome menu, then "System Tools" -> "Login Screen Setup", which runs gdmconfig. Instead of the "enter the root password" dialog, a message pops-up: You cannot run login screen setup as non super user. This could be a gnome bug. IMO if users are not allowed to run this, it should not be listed in the menu at all.
Forgot to mention, this happens with gnome 2.10, updated today when it has been marked as stable.
Sounds more like a permissions issue to me. Anyway, you forgot to provide your 'emerge info'.
Sorry. Here my emerge info. Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.3.5-20050130, glibc-2.3.4.200 41102-r1, 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-gentoo-r6 i686 Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.5 [2.3.5 (#1, May 7 2005, 11:55:27)] ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5 sys-apps/sandbox: [Not Present] sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r6 sys-devel/automake: 1.5, 1.9.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.4_p6, 1.8.5-r3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r10 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.16 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share /config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/lib/ mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/sh are/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/te x/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium4 -mcpu=pentium4 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://sunsite.cnlab-switch.ch/ftp/mirror/gentoo http://ftp.tu-c lausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.or g/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acpi alsa apache2 apm arts avi berkdb bindist bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl dvd dvdread eds emacs emboss encode esd fam flac foomaticdb fortran ga im gdbm gif gmail gnome gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 icq imagemagick imap imli b innodb ipv6 java jpeg junit libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mozsvg mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls offensive ogg oggvorbis opengl oss other_var1 other_var2 pam pcmcia pdflib perl php png ppds python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl spell sqlite ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts unicod e usb vorbis wifi xine xml2 xmms xv zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS
(In reply to comment #0) > Click on the "Applications" gnome menu, then "System Tools" -> "Login Screen Setup", which runs gdmconfig. > Instead of the "enter the root password" dialog, a message pops-up: > You cannot run login screen setup as non super user. > > This could be a gnome bug. IMO if users are not allowed to run this, it should not be listed in the menu at all. I get the same error running 2.12.1. The problem is with GDM as gdmsetup (actual program) doesn't contain any authentication code like some of the other GNOME apps have (Services, Users, etc..).
I think this is still the case. Maybe you should report a bug upstream if it doesn't already exist in their bugzilla. herd, what shall we do about the status of this bug ?
Still happening in Gnome 2.19 ... is this a big problem? Should we modify the .desktop to run gksu? Poke upstream?
It should probably call gksu
this is fixed in gdm-2.20 ebuilds afair
