Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled
Maybe d-i can set a debconf value that gksu would use to choose the default, but this might fall afoul of the 'Debconf is not a registry' policy. It doesn't have to be a debconf setting, gksu can just check at install time if there is a root password or not, and if there isn't, it should pick sudo. Seems like a sensible default and doesn't bother the user with a debconf question, or it could be a low priority warning or something. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled
Le dimanche 21 février 2010 à 19:05 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit : The setting of /apps/gksu/sudo-mode does not belong to menu, so I reassigne this bug to gksu. Ubuntu does not offer to set the root password, so it can always set /apps/gksu/sudo-mode to true unconditionnaly. Debian cannot do that. Maybe d-i can set a debconf value that gksu would use to choose the default, but this might fall afoul of the 'Debconf is not a registry' policy. It's already an alternative, and AFAIK it is already set by the installer when you choose to install in sudo mode. Cheers, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled
Maybe d-i can set a debconf value that gksu would use to choose the default, but this might fall afoul of the 'Debconf is not a registry' policy. It's already an alternative, and AFAIK it is already set by the installer when you choose to install in sudo mode. I installed Debian squeeze from a netinst CD without a root password, without Gnome. I installed Gnome some time after finishing the installation, and gksu wasn't set up for sudo mode, it didn't ask me IIRC. So you're saying that the installer CD would have set this up automatically if I had chosen to install Gnome then? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled
Le lundi 22 février 2010 à 13:52 +0100, FEJES Jozsef a écrit : I installed Debian squeeze from a netinst CD without a root password, without Gnome. I installed Gnome some time after finishing the installation, and gksu wasn't set up for sudo mode, it didn't ask me IIRC. So you're saying that the installer CD would have set this up automatically if I had chosen to install Gnome then? Yes, it should if you install GNOME from the installer. -- .''`. Josselin Mouette : :' : `. `' “I recommend you to learn English in hope that you in `- future understand things” -- Jörg Schilling -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:19:32PM +0100, FEJES Jozsef wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.43 Severity: important When I installed my system, I intentionally didn't specify a root password, which seemed to be a supported installation option. I created a normal user and I can use sudo just fine. But Gnome menus like System-Administration-Synaptic don't work: they ask for the root password, which doesn't exist, so I can never authenticate. I see that these menus invoke su-to-root -X, which has a variable named SU_TO_ROOT_X, but it doesn't support sudo or gksudo. Other menu items work like this so this should be fixed in the su-to-root script. Hello Jozsef, You need to configure GNOME/gksu to use sudo. This is necessary in any case since some GNOME programs use gksu directly, and not su-to-root. For that, you have to change the gconf key /apps/gksu/sudo-mode. Cheers, -- Bill. ballo...@debian.org Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled
Hello Jozsef, You need to configure GNOME/gksu to use sudo. This is necessary in any case since some GNOME programs use gksu directly, and not su-to-root. For that, you have to change the gconf key /apps/gksu/sudo-mode. Thank you, that worked. Could this be a default then, in case someone else installs Debian without a root password? Sudo was installed and configured automatically IIRC, it also just works in Ubuntu. So this is a wishlist priority instead. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled
reassign 570700 gksu retitle /apps/gksu/sudo-mode should be set by d-i. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 06:36:08PM +0100, FEJES Jozsef wrote: Hello Jozsef, You need to configure GNOME/gksu to use sudo. This is necessary in any case since some GNOME programs use gksu directly, and not su-to-root. For that, you have to change the gconf key /apps/gksu/sudo-mode. Thank you, that worked. Could this be a default then, in case someone else installs Debian without a root password? Sudo was installed and configured automatically IIRC, it also just works in Ubuntu. So this is a wishlist priority instead. Hello Jozsef, The setting of /apps/gksu/sudo-mode does not belong to menu, so I reassigne this bug to gksu. Ubuntu does not offer to set the root password, so it can always set /apps/gksu/sudo-mode to true unconditionnaly. Debian cannot do that. Maybe d-i can set a debconf value that gksu would use to choose the default, but this might fall afoul of the 'Debconf is not a registry' policy. Cheers, Bill. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled
Package: menu Version: 2.1.43 Severity: important When I installed my system, I intentionally didn't specify a root password, which seemed to be a supported installation option. I created a normal user and I can use sudo just fine. But Gnome menus like System-Administration-Synaptic don't work: they ask for the root password, which doesn't exist, so I can never authenticate. I see that these menus invoke su-to-root -X, which has a variable named SU_TO_ROOT_X, but it doesn't support sudo or gksudo. Other menu items work like this so this should be fixed in the su-to-root script. -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages menu depends on: ii dpkg 1.15.5.6 Debian package management system ii install-info 4.13a.dfsg.1-5 Manage installed documentation in ii libc6 2.10.2-2 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.4.2-9 GCC support library ii libstdc++64.4.2-9The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 menu recommends no packages. Versions of packages menu suggests: ii gksu 2.0.2-2+b1 graphical frontend to su -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
