I simply added gnome_enable="TRUE" in my /etc/rc.conf file and now everything works fine. On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 01:50 +0200, Carlos Garnacho wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 19:32 +0200, Kiffin Gish wrote: > > For some reason, since recently I am unable to access certain menu items > > from Gnome. For example: > > > > System > Administration > Users and Groups > > > > Results in the following error message: > > > > The configuration could not be loaded > > You are not allowed to access the system configuration. > > > > Used to be that I would be presented a dialogue to enter the root > > password, but that is not happening anymore. > > Since g-s-t 2.18.x, access to the tools is determined through DBus > policies, there are two possible setups: > > 1) Having a policy > in /etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf to allow > access to a group where you should include all the users you > want to grant access, like: > > <policy group="sysadmin"> > <allow send_interface="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends"/> > <allow > send_destination="org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends"/> > </policy> > > > 2) remove any group policy in that file to only allow access to > the root user and modify .desktop files for all the tools to use > gksu, this is the option Ubuntu has taken, for example. > > Hope this helps. > > Regards, > Carlos > > > > > > Any ideas how to fix this? > > -- Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@xxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list