redhat-log-viewer does not work properly

Tammy Fox tfox at redhat.com
Thu Oct 30 16:22:21 UTC 2003


On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 04:23:50PM -0400, Brent Fox wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 16:05, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> > Hi Tammy,
> > 
> > The recent updates fixed it again somehow :-)
> 
> I doubt that.  I think that it's a bug with the pam-panel-icon.  If
> filed a bug on this today at 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=107404
> 
> Basically, if you run a program that requires root password from the
> command line, usermode caches the root password but the pam-panel-icon
> does not appear for some reason.  The problem is that the pam-panel-icon
> process is still running, so it's not clear to the user that the root
> password has been cached.  This isn't good from a security point of
> view.
> 
> If you start the program from the menus, the pam-panel-icon will appear
> correctly.  
> 
> Cheers,
>    Brent
> 

I think this is the expected behavior. It is my understanding that it
only caches the root password for the tty in which the program is
started. Thus, if you start a consolehelper app from a GNOME terminal
or other shell prompt, it will not show the pam panel icon because the
pam panel icon only appears for the tty used when launching apps from
the menu.

Tammy

> 
> > 
> > Jaap
> > 
> > Tammy Fox wrote:
> > > I tried it from the Main Menu, and it worked for me. Maybe your
> > > desktop file is corrupt. What does rpm -qV redhat-logviewer return?
> > > 
> > > Tammy
> > > 
> > > On Sun, Oct 05, 2003 at 03:23:28PM +0200, Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> > > 
> > >>BTW I just discovered that it also works if I just launch from the 
> > >>terminal without being root, but still not from the Main menu :-(
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>Jaap A. Haitsma wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>Hi,
> > >>>
> > >>>When I start the redhat-log-viewer from the Applications menu (System 
> > >>>Tools /Logviewer) I have to type in the root password and then nothing 
> > >>>happens. However if I login as root in a terminal and then lauch it from
> > >>>the terminal it works.
> > >>>
> > >>>Any ideas? Anybody experiencing the same thing?
> > >>>
> > >>>Jaap
> > >>>
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