[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#536490: Bug#536490: Bug#536490: gnome-system-tools: Asks for root password instead of user password via sudo (root disabled)

[Michael Biebl]

Julien BEHEM wrote:
> Michael Biebl a écrit :
>> severity 536490 wishlist
>> retitle 536490 enable sudo like behaviour when system uses disabled root account
>> thanks
>>
>> Josselin Mouette wrote:
>>   
>>> reassign 536490 policykit
>>> thanks
>>>
>>> Le vendredi 10 juillet 2009 à 12:41 +0200, Julien BEHEM a écrit :
>>>     
>>>> When launching any gnome-system-tools utility and clicking on the
>>>> unlock button, it asks for root password but root account is disabled
>>>> and system is using sudo (working well in console, sudo is well
>>>> configured, and sudo-mode is set to true for gksu in gconf editor).
>>>> I saw an old bugreport of 2008 (number 412982) describing maybe the
>>>> same problem and solved by upgrading to 2.16 or 2.17 version, but i'm
>>>> using 2.22...
>>>>       
>>> This is a current limitation of PolicyKit.
>>>
>>>     
>>
>> That is not really a limitation, but a configuration issue. PK can be setup (as
>> e.g. Ubuntu does), to allow for a sudo like behaviour.
>> If you replace the exiting configuration in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf with
>> <config version="0.1">
>>     <match user="root">
>>         <return result="yes"/>
>>     </match>
>>     <define_admin_auth group="admin"/>
>> </config>
>> you should get the same behaviour on Debian (assuming Debian also uses the
>> "admin" group for this).
>>   
> This does not work.
> When I click on the Unlock button in any admin tool, instead of getting the 
> prompt for root password, I get an error after few seconds of timeout : 
> Authentication impossible (or something translated like that).
> 

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