Bug 16164 - webmin won't run as user despite root authorization
Summary: webmin won't run as user despite root authorization
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Installer (show other bugs)
Version: 5
Hardware: x86_64 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
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Assignee: Mageia Bug Squad
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Reported: 2015-06-21 22:07 CEST by Tony Blackwell
Modified: 2015-06-22 00:09 CEST (History)
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Description Tony Blackwell 2015-06-21 22:07:18 CEST
Description of problem:attempts to run webmin from normal user prompt fail, despite successfully spawning the root-authorization dialog, with the messages:

Starting webmin (via systemctl): [OK]
Installation problem.  Please reinstall.

Initially I saw this having done an upgrade of M5 from QA Final to M5.  Just in case this contributed, wiped the whole thing and reinstalled from mirror-released M5, same problem.  Deleting and reinstalling webmin doesn't help.

Work-around is to su to root in a terminal first, then call it from there.

In the course of trying to debug this, I tried to call webmin --help as a user; didn't work - but got a slightly longer message: "Failed to start webmin.service: Access denied"

It would be useful if the dialog getting root authorization worked, so that a user could run webmin from an icon.


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Tony Blackwell 2015-06-21 22:07:51 CEST

Whiteboard: (none) => M5

Comment 1 David Walser 2015-06-22 00:09:00 CEST
webmin is for administration, so users shouldn't be running it, only admins.  If the admin wants to run it, they need to enable it.

Granted it would be nice if the polkit (I guess) thing with systemctl would actually work.  You can file another bug for that.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => INVALID


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