Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 6:02 AM From: "Jared Stevens via blfs-support" <[email protected]> To: "BLFS Support List" <[email protected]> Cc: "Jared Stevens" <[email protected]> Subject: [blfs-support] Issue with Admin Access in GNOME Desktop
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-- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html[http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html] Unsubscribe: See the above information page Hello, I am not entirely sure what you are trying to do. When you first install gdm in blfs, you create a user "gdm" with group "gdm" this is what it is run as. In all my years of using gnome, and it is around 30 years, I have never heard of having a separate administrator account for gdm. All that the main stream distros like debian and fedora do, for their "administrator" accounts is to add the user to the wheel and in the case of fedora to the sudoers file. In the past, the do gooders that developed gdm/gnome and also KDE dictated that root login was not allowed, despite the fact that they do not own the hardware, and there fore have absolutely no right to push this down peoples throats. This may have been loosened up a little, because in the case of kde they hard code it into the code base, and check if the id is set to root, and then would not allow you to login. I have found the following from the ubuntu forums that *may* point you in the right direction: https://askubuntu.com/questions/967789/any-idea-on-how-to-enable-root-login-through-gui-on-17-10 Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
