Gedit issue regarding authentication

[ajamison]

When i try to edit something from the comand line using gedit i get the following error

 GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

Yet the file still opens and is still editable any idea how to stop this error?

[stoat]

Originally Posted by ajamison

Yet the file still opens and is still editable any idea how to stop this error?

Hi ajamison,

I don't have the answer you asked for. But I wanted to say that I have noticed that warning since forever and always ignored it. I searched the Internet today and discovered your question has been asked many many times. I didn't paste any links because they are plentiful. There is a fair amount of comment about what it means. But what to do about it, as you asked, was not seen by me today other than "ignore it".

FWIW, playing around with it I discovered that it doesn't always happen...

gedit [file that I own]		No

su
[password]
gedit [any file]		Yes

su -
[password]
gedit [any file]		No

sudo gedit [any file]		No

Maybe one of the smart guys will tell us what the significance of that is.

[JN4OldSchool]

was going to answer this morning that I get the same thing. But as stoat says, I have no answer...just ignore it...

edit: BTW, stoats positive result is how I ALWAYS do things in Fedora. I dont use sudo unless I'm in Ubuntu and I rarely su - unless I have to.

[ajamison]

I can ignore it I was just wondering what caused it.