> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 at 10:10 AM > From: "Christopher Gregory via blfs-support" > <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: "Christopher Gregory" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [blfs-support] Issue with Admin Access in GNOME Desktop > > > > > > 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 >
Hello, As is the case when doing a quick search, a better result is found, this time on gnome's wiki: https://help.gnome.org/admin/gdm/stable/security.html.en Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
