On Wed, 5 Dec 2007 10:51:38 -0700, Michal Jaegermann wrote:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=251062 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=400351 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=408061 and closed as NOTABUG https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401811 Quite possibly there is more surprises in store.
All of the above affect F8.
A graphical PolicyKit dialog that asks for the root password? Interesting. I didn't run X as root either.
What I remember is that I opened xterm for "su -" and then used "parted" to change the partition table on /dev/sda. I started with deleting partitions 6 and 7 so I could merge them into one. After a reboot, I used fdisk to fix the partition numbering. At either one of those steps, some component (possibly gnome-volume-manager) went wild and mounted the renumbered partitions on /media/* and created desktop icons.
Could it be that while I was root something passed on the permissions without asking for the password?