How to administer Fedora via VNC connection

[Dawid Zamirski]

On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 10:04 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX N2469R wrote:
> I have two VNC sessions set up - one for my caf
> account and one for root, both passworded of
> course.
> 
> Unfortunately somtthing in Fedora prevents me
> from doing system mx tasks such as add/remove
> software and getting disk drive health reports.
> 
> How can I enable effective system admin via VNC,
> at least on my local subnet?  I want to do most
> of my system admin tasks from my comfortable office,
> not the cold dark noisy basement where the Fedora
> server sits.
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 

This is due to default PolicyKit settings that do not allow you to do
certain things when logged in remotely. You can change the policy in
System -> Preferences -> Authorizations - of course, you have to do it
when logged in locally.