Thanks Mike for the reply. I have tried now on 3 additional 10.10 systems, 2 freshly installed, and saw the same problem.

Open System->Administration->Users and Groups, then click on Add.

If logged on locally I get the authenticate prompt, if logged on via x2go I do not (and thus cannot add user). Similar issue with the Update Manager and Time and Date apps. Oddly there is no problem with Synaptic Package Manager, I get prompted for authentication when running that both local and through x2go.

I also created 2 new 10.04 systems and saw almost the same on those. The difference is on 10.04 Update Manager seems to work fine while Users and Groups and Time and Date have the same problem as I saw on 10.10.

I'm installing using the x2goserver-one and x2goclient packages from the repository specified on the wiki http://wiki.x2go.org/. Anyone have ideas on what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks,
Richard

On 02/02/2011 04:45 AM, Mike Gabriel wrote:

Hi Richard,

On Mo 31 Jan 2011 19:23:30 CET Richard Strysniewicz wrote:

I am using x2go to access a couple of ubuntu/gnome systems and it
works great! I do have one nagging issue though - When I am in an
x2go session and I run a tool that requires admin access, like
System->Administration->Users and Groups, I do not get prompted for
authentication. Since I am not able to provide admin authentication I
cannot do anything with whichever tool I am running.

If I log in local on these systems I can run the same tools with no
problem, the authentication prompts work fine.

I can add gksudo to the launcher as a work-around, but I am hoping
there is just a setting somewhere I am missing. Any ideas?

Hmmmm... I have never seen this problem on my ubuntu/gnome systems. Probably others have not encountered this issue, either, which might be the reason for noone replying to your problem report.

Greetings,
Mike