Package: libgksu2-0<br>Version: 2.0.13~pre1-6<br>Severity: serious<br>Tags: patch<br>Justification: 0.<br><br>Dear Maintainer,<br><br>Since 2008, if root account has no password or is locked<br>(e.g. by `passwd -d root`, using sudo accounts), then certain<br>
desktop gksu invocations fail (unetbootin from the menu, wicd, ...).<br>They fail because the GConf key /apps/gksu/sudo-mode <br>is not set by default. More info in Debian gksu bug #481686<br><a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481689">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481689</a><br>
<br>I provide a patch for libgksu-2.0.postinst script that<br>fixes this issue (after each gksu installation).<br><br>This bug has been present since lenny, there's no reason <br>not to fix it for wheezy. I'm marking this bug serious on <br>
RC_policy justification that it "makes unrelated software on <br>the system break."<br><br>While the short postinst patch may fix the problem, this is <br>really just a hack.<br><br>Rather, I think opinionated, libgksu should have the <br>
'can-root-even-log-in?' check **hard-coded** (and if root <br>can't log in, provide sudo behavior). Think about it, if root<br>cannot log in, who is going to do administrative tasks if not <br>sudo users?<br>
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<br>-- System Information:<br>Debian Release: wheezy/sid<br> APT prefers testing<br> APT policy: (500, 'testing')<br>Architecture: i386 (i686)<br><br>Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-4-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)<br>Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)<br>
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash<br><br>Versions of packages libgksu2-0 depends on:<br>ii gconf2 3.2.5-1+build1<br>ii libatk1.0-0 2.4.0-2<br>ii libc6 2.13-37<br>ii libcairo2 1.12.2-2<br>
ii libfontconfig1 2.9.0-7<br>ii libfreetype6 2.4.9-1<br>ii libgconf2-4 3.2.5-1+build1<br>ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.26.1-1<br>ii libglib2.0-0 2.33.12+really2.32.4-3<br>
ii libgnome-keyring0 3.4.1-1<br>ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.10-2<br>ii libgtop2-7 2.28.4-3<br>ii libpango1.0-0 1.30.0-1<br>ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-1<br>ii libx11-6 2:1.5.0-1<br>
ii xauth 1:1.0.7-1<br><br>Versions of packages libgksu2-0 recommends:<br>ii sudo 1.8.5p2-1<br><br>libgksu2-0 suggests no packages.<br><br>-- no debconf information<br>