Julien BEHEM wrote: > Michael Biebl a écrit : >> severity 536490 wishlist >> retitle 536490 enable sudo like behaviour when system uses disabled root >> account >> thanks >> >> Josselin Mouette wrote: >> >>> reassign 536490 policykit >>> thanks >>> >>> Le vendredi 10 juillet 2009 à 12:41 +0200, Julien BEHEM a écrit : >>> >>>> When launching any gnome-system-tools utility and clicking on the >>>> unlock button, it asks for root password but root account is disabled >>>> and system is using sudo (working well in console, sudo is well >>>> configured, and sudo-mode is set to true for gksu in gconf editor). >>>> I saw an old bugreport of 2008 (number 412982) describing maybe the >>>> same problem and solved by upgrading to 2.16 or 2.17 version, but i'm >>>> using 2.22... >>>> >>> This is a current limitation of PolicyKit. >>> >>> >> >> That is not really a limitation, but a configuration issue. PK can be setup >> (as >> e.g. Ubuntu does), to allow for a sudo like behaviour. >> If you replace the exiting configuration in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf >> with >> <config version="0.1"> >> <match user="root"> >> <return result="yes"/> >> </match> >> <define_admin_auth group="admin"/> >> </config> >> you should get the same behaviour on Debian (assuming Debian also uses the >> "admin" group for this). >> > This does not work. > When I click on the Unlock button in any admin tool, instead of getting the > prompt for root password, I get an error after few seconds of timeout : > Authentication impossible (or something translated like that). >
Are you member of the "admin" group? -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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