[plug] vnc - strange behaviour under Centos

[Denis Brown]

At 10:17 AM 4/07/2009, you wrote:

>Vncserver is started up via xinetd on a CentOS 5.3 host, either virtual or
>real. I can connect to the server via vnc and get the login screen. I can
>also login as either a user or as root and get the corresponding desktop.
>
>What happens next is CentOS 5.3 specific, as it works well on SuSE Linux,
>Ubuntu etc. On a CentOS 5.3 host, when I am connected as a normal user via
>VNC,  and I try to open a 'privileged' program (one that would prompt for a
>root password) or anything else that requires the root password, neither the
>password dialog nor the program will show up.
>
>Trying the same but logged in as root, the program will just not display. No
>errors in any of the logs.
>
>Anybody having the same problems? How did you fix it?

Hello Peter,

This could be way off track but recent experience with Centos suggests that 
turning off (temporarily?) SElinux may help.

I have had some installations go pear-shaped unless SElinux was disabled.

HTH,
Denis



>Peter
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