Catch22

[synrg at sanctuary.nslug.ns.ca (Ben Armstrong)]

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 10:44:20 -0400
"Thomas H. George" <tom at tomgeorge.info> wrote:
> The problem exist with the lenny iso I downloaded last night.

Sigh.  Sad, but true.  I have just reproduced this problem with the lenny
iso and see why, too.  I had assumed that all privileged procedures launched
from the menu used one of the su or sudo wrappers.  But I find by grepping
/usr/share/menu/* for "Network admin" that this one is not wrapped.  Instead,
the /usr/bin/network-admin binary itself is launched, and apparently that
checks for privs and prompts for the root password (presumably a libsudo
thing).  The irksome part is that this completely ignores my gconf settings:

        chroot /root sudo -u "${USERNAME}" gconftool-2 -s -t
bool /apps/gksu/sudo-mode true
        chroot /root sudo -u "${USERNAME}" gconftool-2 -s -t
bool /apps/gksu/display-no-pass-info false

This is where I get lost.  Is there some library built into network-admin
that does a privilege check?  If so, what?  And what gconf settings does
it obey (if any)?  So I have some more poking about to do before I can fix
this.

Ben
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