I have the same with Edgy amd64 but not only in terminal, lunch from GUI administration menu not autorised.
Messages in terminal : ~$ gksu network-admin (network-admin:28817): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. (network-admin:28817): Liboobs-CRITICAL **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: The name org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends was not provided by any .service files (network-admin:28817): Liboobs-CRITICAL **: There was an unknown error communicating with the backends: The name org.freedesktop.SystemToolsBackends was not provided by any .service files GUI message boxe : (in frensh..) "Chargement de la configuration impossible Vous n'étes pas autorisés à accéder à la configuration système." -- gksudo GnomeUI Warning https://launchpad.net/bugs/23917 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs