On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 11:09 PM, anx_dev <ispma...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Since the change for pkexec, Synaptic cannot be started with a user
> with sudo privileges. This is _very_ cumbersome if you have to admin
> several machines with a central NIS for users and allowing only the
> user sitting on the machine to have sudo on _that_ machine. Should
> I report a bug? Is there a easy way to change this configuration for
> all machines quickly?

How are the users given sudo access?

By default, members of the sudo group are pkexec admins:

$ cat /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-debian-sudo.conf
[Configuration]
AdminIdentities=unix-group:sudo


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