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 I ended up coming to the conclusion this information is outdated after a long search through the ubiquity code base that this one mention seemed to be left in even though ubiquity uses policykit now so future lubuntu isos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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1553401 Title: manpage for ubiquity claims escalate privileges for itself using gksudo, kdesu, kdesudo, or sudo but recent versions escalte privlege with policykit To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/1553401/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs