Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled

2010-02-22 Thread FEJES Jozsef
Maybe d-i can set a debconf value that gksu would use to choose the default, but this might fall afoul of the 'Debconf is not a registry' policy. It doesn't have to be a debconf setting, gksu can just check at install time if there is a root password or not, and if there isn't, it should pick

Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled

2010-02-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le dimanche 21 février 2010 à 19:05 +0100, Bill Allombert a écrit : The setting of /apps/gksu/sudo-mode does not belong to menu, so I reassigne this bug to gksu. Ubuntu does not offer to set the root password, so it can always set /apps/gksu/sudo-mode to true unconditionnaly. Debian cannot

Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled

2010-02-22 Thread FEJES Jozsef
Maybe d-i can set a debconf value that gksu would use to choose the default, but this might fall afoul of the 'Debconf is not a registry' policy. It's already an alternative, and AFAIK it is already set by the installer when you choose to install in sudo mode. I installed Debian squeeze

Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled

2010-02-22 Thread Josselin Mouette
Le lundi 22 février 2010 à 13:52 +0100, FEJES Jozsef a écrit : I installed Debian squeeze from a netinst CD without a root password, without Gnome. I installed Gnome some time after finishing the installation, and gksu wasn't set up for sudo mode, it didn't ask me IIRC. So you're saying that

Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled

2010-02-21 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 08:19:32PM +0100, FEJES Jozsef wrote: Package: menu Version: 2.1.43 Severity: important When I installed my system, I intentionally didn't specify a root password, which seemed to be a supported installation option. I created a normal user and I can use sudo just

Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled

2010-02-21 Thread FEJES Jozsef
Hello Jozsef, You need to configure GNOME/gksu to use sudo. This is necessary in any case since some GNOME programs use gksu directly, and not su-to-root. For that, you have to change the gconf key /apps/gksu/sudo-mode. Thank you, that worked. Could this be a default then, in case someone else

Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled

2010-02-21 Thread Bill Allombert
reassign 570700 gksu retitle /apps/gksu/sudo-mode should be set by d-i. On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 06:36:08PM +0100, FEJES Jozsef wrote: Hello Jozsef, You need to configure GNOME/gksu to use sudo. This is necessary in any case since some GNOME programs use gksu directly, and not su-to-root. For

Bug#570700: admin menus don't work if root is disabled

2010-02-20 Thread FEJES Jozsef
Package: menu Version: 2.1.43 Severity: important When I installed my system, I intentionally didn't specify a root password, which seemed to be a supported installation option. I created a normal user and I can use sudo just fine. But Gnome menus like System-Administration-Synaptic don't work: