[rhelv6-beta-list] gui config files want non-root user password

[Bill Nottingham]

Cia Watson (ciamarie at my180.net) said: 
> I configured a couple of things on my desktop install yesterday, and
> noticed that when it needed authentication to do something it wanted my
> 'regular user' password rather than the root user password (like sudo /
> Ubuntu). When I saw it asking for authentication I entered the root
> password the first time and when that didn't work I looked closer and
> saw it wasn't asking for root, then when I entered my regular user
> password, that worked. 
> 
> Since I'm used to Fedora and CentOS, I wasn't sure if this was
> something new and expected behavior, or if it's possibly a bug? I
> noticed it in system-config-services, system-config-firewall and in the
> add & remove software gui application.

This is because of the policykit configuration. See 'man polkit' and the
files in /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/ for details.

> Lastly, I was told there's not a package system-config-nfs when I
> tried to yum install it -- is that by accident or design?

It's by design at the moment; it was not providing sufficient value over
editing the file normally.

Bill