SLES

YaST2 allegedly without root rights

From time to time I have the dubious pleasure of working with SLES systems. Of course, I also have to interact with yast or yast2 to configure the system and some services. You can think what you like about the philosophy of hiding the actual configuration files behind a GUI, I don’t think much of it - but that’s just a side note.

During my last excursion into the world of this enterprise distribution, I noticed a curious error. I logged into the system, changed my user context to root and started YaST2. I was greeted by the following message: