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Re: Bug#481689: should default to gksudo if root doesn't have a password



On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 01:29:00AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le samedi 17 mai 2008 à 18:26 -0400, Avery Fay a écrit :
> > The latest snapshots of the debian installer allow root to have no 
> > password (pure sudo system). Since gksu seems to default to su behavior 
> > instead of sudo behavior, this breaks all of gnomes admin menu items. I 
> > think gksu should check whether root has a password and if not it should 
> > default to gksudo behavior.

Actually, this is not new at all.  Etch already fully supports
sudo-based system.

> In this case, I think the installer should globally set
> the /apps/gksu/sudo-mode GConf key.
> 
> D-I team: which package is responsible for this? Fixing things this way
> should be quite simple.

When gksu is available in the target system at the end of the
installation (for example, by being installed by the "desktop" task),
it is properly configured to use sudo if no root password has been
entered.

See the "user-setup-apply" script in user-setup.

Cheers,
-- 
Jérémy Bobbio                        .''`. 
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