[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help. ** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu) Status: Incomplete = Expired -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961 Title: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/alacarte/+bug/493961/+subscriptions -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
Thought I'd heard something about this and was glad to find the background here. I was reminded while catching both the punt-users-on-shutdown-warning and CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor applet being smart enough to ask for the password for the local superuser while e.g. Synaptic still doesn't. I'll mark myself affected since it would be convenient to run Synaptic from a running X session without having to ssh -X localhost as my privileged user*, but it's more a wishlist for 10.04 than a killer bug here. *On that particular machine, to avoid dozens of what's-the-password? calls, I put the 'usual' unprivileged user into a localusers group, gave it a hard random password, and rigged up some pam magic to make a local login through gdm sufficient without a password. This apes Windows' behavior for users without passwords - and if anyone is looking for a project, it'd be nice to codify that as a feature in Ubuntu so I don't have to remember what I did there on every upgrade. ;) -- some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
Using the side by side install method I found the system was partitioned by ext4. When i tried to partition the hard drive manually by EXT4 i got errors and could not partition. I recently did a manual partiton using ext3 and the Synaptic Package manager did not ask for Administrative password. Nothing did. Did not have wifi connection with EXT3 but every thing else seems OK. -- some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
The System - Administration menu is in many aspects not usable!! E. g. even after changing the Language Support command to gksudo /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector in alacarte, I can not install any language by using the menu. This is because after selecting a language for installation a get asked for the root password. In contrast to that there is no problem if I run gksudo /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector from a terminal. -- some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided = Low -- some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
This is by design -- sudo is being phased out in favor of PolicyKit. ** This bug is no longer flagged as a security vulnerability ** Tags added: karmic -- some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
From my understanding if I install Karmic from scratch I should be the administrator and all menus should work for me right away. If not where are the clear hints about how to enable those menu items? Asking for THE? administrative password instead of my users password seems to be wrong. Kees, you mention that policy kit should do the job, but you do not tell how. I have found no easy solution but to set a root password. I also think that others may do it too which is not want Ubuntu's security philosphy is. How can we expect that Ubuntu gains more users if we do not make things easier but more complicated? -- some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to alacarte in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
[Bug 493961] Re: some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
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