[Bug 64612] Re: Elevated privileges as new created user
1. Yes, I agree that a more specific message would be helpful, but from what i understand, kdesu is just a frontend to su/sudo with some modifications; since sudo itself doesnt report any error, the message kdesu returns is generic. 2. As I said, in most situations, there is one administrator for the computer, and other users do not need to 'maintain' the computer, but ofcourse if you need to give others the rights, you can do that too :) . 3. No worries :) -- Elevated privileges as new created user https://launchpad.net/bugs/64612 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 64612] Re: Elevated privileges as new created user
Tanks for the fast answer Abattoir. I must admit that I used the username admin as the first user, and wasn't aware of the group named admin. Check your proposal out, and found that it did the trick. It would too have been nice, if the error in the notice box could have stated something like Missing privileges. instead of Conversation with su failed. - at least it fooled me, but maybe i'm the only one!. Anyway i can't help thinking that this feature could become a security risk over time, as it prevent normal users from running the updates manager when a update notification is shown. Could it be possible to make this work to a normal user ? At least but not last, sorry for posting under oem-config, marked the bug as I don't know in the first place, but that seemed to be overruled by launchpad. Tried to change that too by editing the bug, but it wasn't possible either -- Elevated privileges as new created user https://launchpad.net/bugs/64612 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
[Bug 64612] Re: Elevated privileges as new created user
This is a 'feature' rather than a 'bug'. In most situations only one Administrator account is needed, other accounts do not need administrator privileges, therefore only the user created during installation has admin. privileges. If you want other users to have them you'd have to add that manually. 'sudo adduser user2 admin' , when run from an account which has admin. privileges should give user2 admin privileges too. Alternatively, you can add 'admin' to the list of Secondary Groups when creating a new user, or by modifying an existing user's account through System Settings. Anyway, you seem to have Installed through Ubiquity, so this has nothing do with oem-config(or Ubiquity either, for that matter). I'm Rejecting the bug, if you think I haven't understood something, please feel free to re-open the bug. ** Changed in: oem-config (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed = Rejected -- Elevated privileges as new created user https://launchpad.net/bugs/64612 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
