Re: Possible bug: gksu, pkexec grants root with password on GNOME

[Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>]

Hi there,

On  Mo 24 Feb 2014 21:57:32 CET, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:

> [Jürgen Leibner]
> > For better understanding, the IRC conversation here is:
>
> Could it be that the KDE tool uses sudo (and expect the users password
> and sudo access), while synaptic uses su (and expect the root
> password)?

Bug reported long ago:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=654197

In my opinion, all Debian systems should switch gksu into sudo mode by  
default for systems that lack a root password.

Note: in Debian Installer you can omit the root password and if that  
root password is omitted, D-I installs sudo and gives the initial user  
account full sudo permissions.

For Debian Edu we should make sudo mode the default, as long as it is  
not handled in Debian itself.

Mike

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