A few points: 1) if your user is part of sudo group, most of the time gnome will ask for your user's password instead of root's. 2) Debian is a finite set of software. It provides packages (literally thousands of them) that are stable, safe and malicious pop-ups free. It also provides packages enabling user to run software that cannot be found in Debian's pool (and is potentially unsafe) in a safe, virtualized environment (qemu and stuff). 3) xfce needs less root 4) asking a user to open up a console and type their root's password there will add unnecessary complexity while enforcing a security mechanism like selinux will be a pain. Please leave it be.
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:31 AM, Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindf...@iki.fi>wrote: > Michael Banck <mba...@debian.org> writes: > >> I think the best approach would be sudo and requesting the user for > >> their own password - and probably be more informative about why the > >> password is needed or what is being installed. > > > > By the way, this seems to be the case for my wheezy installation, > > however, I am running vanilla Gnome3, not Classic (and have been running > > wheezy all along sind late 2012). > > Perhaps your user is in the sudo group? If yes then at least in squeeze > policykit will consider you to be admin: > > $ cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-debian-sudo.conf > [Configuration] > AdminIdentities=unix-group:sudo > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/848v2izak6....@sauna.l.org > >
