Bug#481689: should default to gksudo if root doesn't have a password

Avery Fay avery at shadypixel.com
Sat May 17 22:26:44 UTC 2008


Package: gksu
Version: 2.0.0-5
Severity: important

The latest snapshots of the debian installer allow root to have no 
password (pure sudo system). Since gksu seems to default to su behavior 
instead of sudo behavior, this breaks all of gnomes admin menu items. I 
think gksu should check whether root has a password and if not it should 
default to gksudo behavior.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  gnome-keyring              2.22.1-1      GNOME keyring services (daemon and
ii  libatk1.0-0                1.22.0-1      The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                      2.7-10        GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcairo2                  1.6.4-1+b1    The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii  libgconf2-4                2.22.0-1      GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgksu2-0                 2.0.5-2       library providing su and sudo func
ii  libglib2.0-0               2.16.3-2      The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0          2.22.1-1      GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                2.12.9-3      The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                  1:2.14.12-0.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0              1.20.2-2      Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libstartup-notification0   0.9-1         library for program launch feedbac
ii  sudo                       1.6.9p15-2    Provide limited super user privile

gksu recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information






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