Re: Menu: System->Administration->Authentication: BROKE!

[Dan Thurman <dant cdkkt com>]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 19:41 -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> On 3/17/06, Tomas Mraz <tmraz redhat com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 08:24 -0800, Dan Thurman wrote:
> > > As the subject line says:
> > > "Menu: System->Administration->Authentication: BROKE!"
> > >
> > > I cannot set the authentication properties via this tool
> > > because selecting this does not pop up the GUI.
> >
> > What happens if you run system-config-authentication from a command
> > line?
> 
> I'm not sure what the original poster's problem is.
> s-c-auth worksforme.
> 
> system-config-authentication runs for me on my rawhide synced box
> both from the menus and from the terminal.. no oddness.. it asks for
> root password via the standard consolehelper password dialog and then
> displays the gui.
> rpm -qf /usr/sbin/system-config-authentication
> authconfig-gtk-5.2.2-1
> on a 32bit smp system.
> 
> -jef
> 

Bug report was submitted and the developer is looking into
it.  Apparently it is a python script and it broke due to
some kind of variable or something in the script.  Not sure
what it is.

Bug: 185766

Dan