880504 - Linux upgrade required root privileges

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 529748

(Toolkit :: Application Update, defect)

Description

[Todd]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

The automatic upgrades crash as the user is not running as "root".   Would you please add a feature that asks for the "root" password before trying to upgrade?  And, not attempt to upgrade, unless the user is actually "root" or has been elevated to root.

Comment 1

[Todd]

Have you guys looks at the way Mac OS prompts for root password when installing a new package?  Something similar would be great.

Comment 2

[Todd]

This affects Thunderbird too (17 on up).

Also, /usr/bin/system-config-network prompts you for your root password.  Maybe you could take a peek inside and see how they do it.

Comment 3

[Todd]

(In reply to Todd from comment #2)

> Also, /usr/bin/system-config-network prompts you for your root password. 
> Maybe you could take a peek inside and see how they do it.

"Supposedly", according to "yum", this utility is included in

http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/26/dist/74/size/1622378/name/system-config-network-1.6.0.el6.2-1.el6.src.rpm

Comment 4

[Todd]

Take a look at the manual pages for polkit and pkexec ("man polkit" and "man pkexec").  These are the built in command in Linux to elevate