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
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.
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.
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
** Changed in: alacarte (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = Low
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some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961
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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
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some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961
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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,
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some apps in System Administration do not work with sudo
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/493961
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