My Mandriva 2008.1 system is periodically flashing up "The Password you
enetered is incorrect" messages in small windows-- when I close it I get
two more, one at a time. Now I have not enetered any password into
anything. It seems it is running some program-- I have no idea which-- and
thinks I entered a password, and complaining.

What could this be and how can I stop it?

On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:25:16 GMT, Bill Unruh wrote:
> My Mandriva 2008.1 system is periodically flashing up "The Password you
> enetered is incorrect" messages in small windows-- when I close it I get
> two more, one at a time. Now I have not enetered any password into
> anything. It seems it is running some program-- I have no idea which-- and
> thinks I entered a password, and complaining.
>
> What could this be

No clue from me.

> and how can I stop it?

Gota find it first. Next time you get a pop up, click up a terminal

ps -aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > popup.list
and see if you can see an unusual program running by looking in popup.list.

Might not hurt to get a list of programs for a normal login before the
popups start.

ps -aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > good.list

Bit Twister wrote:
> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:25:16 GMT, Bill Unruh wrote:
>> My Mandriva 2008.1 system is periodically flashing up "The Password you
>> enetered is incorrect" messages in small windows-- when I close it I get
>> two more, one at a time. Now I have not enetered any password into
>> anything. It seems it is running some program-- I have no idea which-- and
>> thinks I entered a password, and complaining.
>>
>> What could this be
>
> No clue from me.
>
>> and how can I stop it?
>
> Gota find it first. Next time you get a pop up, click up a terminal
>
> ps -aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > popup.list
> and see if you can see an unusual program running by looking in popup.list.
>
> Might not hurt to get a list of programs for a normal login before the
> popups start.
>
> ps -aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > good.list
>
Hi

Just an info. When enters:
"ps -aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > good.list"
It warns:
"Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
http://procps.sf.net/faq.html"

Went on that FAQ, they say:
"According to the POSIX and UNIX standards, the above command asks to
display all processes with a TTY (generally the commands users are
running) plus all processes owned by a user named "x". If that user
doesn't exist, then ps will assume you really meant "ps aux". The
warning is given to gently break you of a habit that will cause you
trouble if a user named "x" were created."

But the "good.list" is created anyway.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:41:34 +0200, Eom wrote:
>> ps -aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > good.list
>>
> Hi
>
> Just an info. When enters:
> "ps -aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > good.list"
> It warns:
> "Warning: bad ps syntax, perhaps a bogus '-'? See
> http://procps.sf.net/faq.html"

Frap, my fault, old habit from using ps on other OSs in the past.

Should have been ps aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > good.list
ps aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > popup.list

Eom <eom@free.fr> writes:

>Bit Twister wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Jul 2008 00:25:16 GMT, Bill Unruh wrote:
>>> My Mandriva 2008.1 system is periodically flashing up "The Password you
>>> enetered is incorrect" messages in small windows-- when I close it I get
>>> two more, one at a time. Now I have not enetered any password into
>>> anything. It seems it is running some program-- I have no idea which-- and
>>> thinks I entered a password, and complaining.
>>>
>>> What could this be
>>
>> No clue from me.
>>
>>> and how can I stop it?
>>
>> Gota find it first. Next time you get a pop up, click up a terminal
>>
>> ps -aux | grep $(id -u $USER) > popup.list
>> and see if you can see an unusual program running by looking in popup.list.

I seems to be mdkapplet running urpmi.update as me as user. Since
urpmi.update needs to be root to run, it needs a password. Why mdkapplet is
running at all, why it is trying to update urpmi every 10 min, and how I
control mdkapplet ( other than just killing it) are questions that are
beyond me at present.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:08:47 GMT, Unruh wrote:

> I seems to be mdkapplet running urpmi.update as me as user.

Yep, new feature which is kinda nice, in a single user environment.

> Since urpmi.update needs to be root to run, it needs a password.

Which is good.

> Why mdkapplet is running at all,

Default out of the box feature.

> why it is trying to update urpmi every 10 min,

10 min, wondering if you changed a setting.
I thought it checking ~10 seconds for a default 3 hour event
was pretty abusive.

> and how I control mdkapplet ( other than just killing it) are
> questions that are beyond me at present.

You can make some global timing changes in /etc/sysconfig/mdkapplet
Have you tried right clicking on the icon in the task bar?
You can user urpme to erase it.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:08:47 -0400, Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

> I seems to be mdkapplet running urpmi.update as me as user. Since
> urpmi.update needs to be root to run, it needs a password. Why mdkapplet is

Mandriva Update does not need to be root anymore. As root, run draksec. Scroll
to the right to the Authentication tab. Take a look at which settings no longer
require any password, or only the user password, to be able to run.

I disable mdkapplet (right click, disable). This sets AUTOSTART=FALSE in
~/.MdkOnline/mdkonline. Change it to TRUE, or run mdkapplet -f, if you
later want it back.

When mdkapplet is enabled, its update frequency, and startup delay are set in
/etc/sysconfig/mdkapplet.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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"David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> writes:

>On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 11:08:47 -0400, Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

>> I seems to be mdkapplet running urpmi.update as me as user. Since
>> urpmi.update needs to be root to run, it needs a password. Why mdkapplet is

>Mandriva Update does not need to be root anymore. As root, run draksec. Scroll
>to the right to the Authentication tab. Take a look at which settings no longer
>require any password, or only the user password, to be able to run.

>I disable mdkapplet (right click, disable). This sets AUTOSTART=FALSE in
>~/.MdkOnline/mdkonline. Change it to TRUE, or run mdkapplet -f, if you
>later want it back.

Unfortunately I have an old kde Desktop, so those applets are not on my
desktop bar.



>When mdkapplet is enabled, its update frequency, and startup delay are set
>in
>/etc/sysconfig/mdkapplet.


Thanks a lot for this tutorial.

By the way, when I run draksec as root, I get 10
uid mismatch
messages on the console.

On Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:48:32 GMT, Unruh wrote:
> "David W. Hodgins" <dwhodgins@nomail.afraid.org> writes:
>
>>I disable mdkapplet (right click, disable). This sets AUTOSTART=FALSE in
>>~/.MdkOnline/mdkonline. Change it to TRUE, or run mdkapplet -f, if you
>>later want it back.
>
> Unfortunately I have an old kde Desktop, so those applets are not on my
> desktop bar.

IIRC, David is on 2008.0. In 2008.1 the icon only shows up when
updates are ready for download. That is when you can right click it to
change user settings.


>
>
>
>>When mdkapplet is enabled, its update frequency, and startup delay are set
>>in
>>/etc/sysconfig/mdkapplet.
>
>
> Thanks a lot for this tutorial.
>
> By the way, when I run draksec as root, I get 10, uid mismatch
> messages on the console.

Hmmm, after I installed drakvirt that cured a bunch of error messages
I used to see when running mcc.

I just tried draksec from an xterm, su - root and saw no messages.

On Fri, 11 Jul 2008 20:48:32 -0400, Unruh <unruh-spam@physics.ubc.ca> wrote:

> Unfortunately I have an old kde Desktop, so those applets are not on my
> desktop bar.

What version of Mandriva/kde are you running? I'm running 2008.1 with kde 3.5.9.
I think they've changed it since I disabled it, so that the icon only shows if
it's found updates.

> By the way, when I run draksec as root, I get 10
> uid mismatch
> messages on the console.

That's strange. I don't. Do the messages appear on the console before you
exit from draksec, or when you exit?

If it's when you exit, that would be from msec running, to update the system files based on any changes you've entered. I've skimmed through draksec and msec, but don't see uid and mismatch in any of the scripts. What's the exact error message?

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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