Re: security policy / root passwords

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

Michael Banck <mbanck@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