** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Trusty)
Importance: Undecided => Medium
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Trusty)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Trusty)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj)
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1008344
Title:
checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit
Status in PolicyKit:
Confirmed
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
In Progress
Status in “language-selector” source package in Trusty:
In Progress
Bug description:
trusty SRU request
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[Impact]
The language-selector UI distinguishes between admin and standard users in
such a way that certain buttons for doing things which require admin privileges
are greyed out for standard users. This bug report describes an authorization
setup where this design is inconvenient. It's reasonable to change the design
and make the buttons sensitive for all users.
[Test Case]
If you log in into a standard user account and open gnome-language-selector,
you'll see that certain buttons are greyed out. If you install the proposed
package, those buttons will be sensitive, and you'll be able to change system
wide settings provided that you enter an admin password.
[Regression Potential]
When you start gnome-language-selector as a standard user, the UI takes a few
seconds longer time than before to show up. This is intentional and needed for
the install/remove feature to work.
[Original description]
In a new install of Ubuntu Precise, I cannot make any system-wide changes in
the language selector (such as installing languages or clicking "Apply
System-Wide"), only user-specific changes. All those controls for system-wide
changes are greyed out, although my user does have sudo abilities and I would
be able to enter the root password of the machine.
The machine is freshly installed, but with customizations specific to
our site, e.g. ldap authentication for users. Specifically, my user is
an ldap user, not a local one, and there is a group in the ldap
directory which was granted sudo capability by adding it to
/etc/sudoers. My user is part of that group. sudo on the command line
and gksudo work fine.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 4 08:20:04 2012
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:
TERM=screen-256color
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
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