In addition, if there is only one administrative account, the Authentication dialog (policykit-1-gnome) no longer specifies which administrative account's password is being requested. This means that if I'm logged into an administrative account that hasn't been granted sudo privileges (but there is another account on the system that has) the Authentication dialog will reject the password for the current account and it's not obvious that it's really requesting the password for that other account.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-system-tools in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1002950 Title: users-admin doesn't add "administrative" users to sudo group Status in “gnome-system-tools” package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: New "administrative" user accounts created with users-admin aren't added to the sudo group. Prior versions added administrative users to the admin group (which no longer exists in 12.04) rather than the sudo group, which had the same effect in granting sudo permissions. This means that so-called administrative accounts cannot perform administrative tasks without first being manually added to /etc/group. If a new administrative account is created and the account that was created during installation is deleted, the user is effectively permanently unable to perform any kind of administrative tasks. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: gnome-system-tools 3.0.0-2ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.38-generic 3.2.16 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue May 22 15:49:20 2012 InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release amd64 (20120425) SourcePackage: gnome-system-tools UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/1002950/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
