Public bug reported:
To reproduce read the manpage for ubiquity and in the second sentence
for description I read It is normally invoked from a desktop icon, and
presents a "wizard"-style graphical user interface. ubiquity must be
run as root, and will escalate privileges for itself using gksudo,
kdesu, kdesudo, or sudo as appropriate. Then since lxqt-sudo is a new
way to run GUI programs as root for lxqt in the archives since 16.04 and
planned to be shipped with lubuntu 16.10 if ubiquity would need changes
to use this. I ended up coming to the conclusion this information is
outdated after a long search through the ubiquity code base that this
one mention seemed to be left in even though ubiquity uses policykit now
so future lubuntu isos need only to have policykit working which could
be nicer but if this was in the manpage I could have improved ubuntu in
other ways than looking through ubiquity source to try to see if lxqt-
sudo could be added. This could be a simple fix but other parts of the
manpage might need to be updated as well.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: ubiquity 2.21.47
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-9.24-generic 4.4.3
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-9-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: wl
ApportVersion: 2.20-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: LXDE
Date: Fri Mar 4 14:34:57 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-06-02 (276 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Lubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" - Alpha amd64 (20150602)
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to xenial on 2015-12-27 (68 days ago)
** Affects: ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug xenial
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Title:
manpage for ubiquity claims escalate privileges for itself using
gksudo, kdesu, kdesudo, or sudo but recent versions escalte privlege
with policykit
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