Hey guys, I'm having a small issue with authentication access in GNOME GDM that I am hoping someone here can help me with.
I've successfully gotten GDM to function (mostly) properly on my BLFS build and can login with a created user account (that I made way back when I first installed PAM and Shadow). This user account is part of the wheel group, which Sudo is installed to use, and has a UID of 1000. I can confirm that using 'sudo' in the Terminal with the user functions as expected. However, GDM has its own "Administrator Access" that is apparently separate from sudo and uses Polkit (which I have installed). The user account I created is listed as a "Standard" account in the GNOME Control Center, and attempts to "unlock" access to change the account to "Administrator" will fail with an authentication error with both my user account's password and the root password. Any idea what I need to do to get my account setup as an Administrator with GDM so I can access the settings and configure GDM to my liking? In the past, the Linux distros I have used with GNOME seem to automatically add the first created user account (via their initial installer) as an Administrator in GNOME, so I am unfamiliar with the steps required to do this manually especially without already having an Administrator account setup with GDM. Let me know if I need to provide any further information such as config files, etc. Thanks! Jared Stevens
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