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by **Stryker** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 4:16 am

I've been working on a graphical configuration utility for /etc/limits. It works good but the only problem is it needs to be run as root. Does anyone know how I would go about prompting for the root password and then running it as root (like most system configuration programs do)?

by **Basher52** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:08 am

have you tried using 'su' ?

by **Stryker** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 5:51 am

i'm not looking for anything like su or sudo. I need it to prompt, graphically, for a root password just as any other system configuration utility does.

by **Void Main** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 11:42 am

You might want to look at this message where I talk about consolehelper:

viewtopic.php?t=244&p=1804#1804

If you need more help than that, let me know.

by **Stryker** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:35 pm

wow, that's exactly what i wanted. i spent the last half hour looking for a place to download it. and all i could find were rpms (which doesnt help me when i'm using a cpk based system), would anyone be willing to extract the .src.rpm and put it in a .tar.gz?

thanks

by **Void Main** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:40 pm

I don't understand. You should have everything you need already installed. That is if you are already being prompted for root password via consolehelper. What distro you running?

by **Stryker** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:44 pm

I'm running calyptos right now. I'm making my own configuration stuff for it. My fedora machine (which isn't working right now) had those dialog box things and that's what i was referring to. I should've been more clear but i didnt think it was too important. sorry for the confusion though.

by **Void Main** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 9:53 pm

Here's the source from the latest src.rpm:

http://voidmain.is-a-geek.net/files/stryker/

by **Stryker** » Tue Feb 10, 2004 10:11 pm

thanks again

by **Stryker** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 4:14 am

alright well after fighting my way through dependencies (the distro's not complete yet) i ran into a problem. Everything's installed fine, i think, and i followed all the instructions in the other thread, and when running the program i get an error "userhelper must be setuid root". This looks like it has an easy solution and I feel like a newb again for not knowing. Any advice?

by **Tux** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:01 am

Doesn't that mean it wan't you to turn the suid bit on for userhelper?

by **Stryker** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:10 am

i did chmod u+s /usr/sbin/userhelper and now i get an "unknown error" when trying to run it. there's no more details other than that

by **Tux** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:29 am

I think it is quite likely you would have to do +s because it is already owned by root so surely setting the suidbit for root would serve no purpose?

EDIT: Disregard this, I think i'm talking rubbish.

by **Stryker** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:35 am

I got the same results, so I think that fixed that problem and just moved me on to another one. If I had to guess i'd say there's something wrong with my pam configuration. somewhere. I just installed pam and it didn't add any configuration files or anything so I added the mentioned ones in the other thread manually (and the folders) and added an "other" file and a "system-auth" file, i think i may be missing something.

by **Stryker** » Wed Feb 11, 2004 6:40 am

i dont have a /etc/pam.conf file, maybe that's it. i'm not sure how to go about making one either. i've never had to mess with pam before.

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