FYI: Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:25:07 -0300 From: Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: debian-live needs this issue to be addressed
Package: menu Version: 2.1.33 Followup-For: Bug #410875 No, installing gksu and/or kdesu only partially addresses the problem. While it is true that both of these packages can be configured to use sudo instead of su, some menu entries are run in the terminal and therefore cannot use either graphical wrapper. So it falls on su-to-root to decide how to acquire root to run them. The end result is that the user is prompted for a root password which is not set, and therefore the menu entry is useless. Actually, it is worse than useless: it is broken, so far as the user of the livecd is concerned. A prompt appears for a password that they don't know (because no password was ever set!) which is sure to cause a fair amount of frustration. Also, this problem does not only afflict livecd users, but any user who prefers sudo over su to become root on their system. You already have a ~/.su-to-rootrc. Why not make it possible for su-to-root to be configured, like gksu, kdesu and sux to use sudo for text mode? Something like SU_TO_ROOT_SU=sudo? Although I understand sux is superior to su in that X credentials are transferred, and wonder if sudo has the same problem and therefore needs a similar wrapper. A couple of "sudox" implementations are: http://www.mathematik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vaeth/download/index.html (but non-free, unfortunately) and http://www.getreu.net/ (no license published) But this is a side issue. It would be better to provide sudo as an alternative now and worry about sudox later. Ben -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-k7 Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Versions of packages menu depends on: ii dpkg 1.13.25 package maintenance system for Deb ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-21 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-21 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 menu recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- ,-. nSLUG http://www.nslug.ns.ca [EMAIL PROTECTED] \`' Debian http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] ` [ gpg 395C F3A4 35D3 D247 1387 2D9E 5A94 F3CA 0B27 13C8 ] [ pgp 7F DA 09 4B BA 2C 0D E0 1B B1 31 ED C6 A9 39 4F ] _______________________________________________ Debian-live-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/debian-live-devel
