Thanks for the tip. In the meantime, however, the problem also disappeared when I added the following lines to my /etc/rc.conf file: gnome_enable="YES" dbus_enable="YES" polkitd_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" -- Kiffin Rex Gish Gouda, The Netherlands > -----Original Message----- > From: Carlos Garnacho [mailto:carlosg@xxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 12:50 AM > To: Kiffin Gish > Cc: gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: You are not allowed to access the system configuration... > > > 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? > > _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
