Can privilege escalation in GNOME be restricted to non-VNC users?

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Issue

  • I'm seeing that if I log in as a non-root user to a Gnome desktop using VNC, I can run applications required privileged access if I know the root password. Is there a way to block this access?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

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