NB: The resolution of this bug caused bug #124993 as the gconf settings
are now read as root instead of as $user.
The long term fix is probably to move to PolicyKit. Alternatively, if
it's not ready yet, it might be possible to switch group instead of
switching user, for example sg stb or gksg
Hi Floris,
Floris Kruisselbrink (vloris) [2007-03-08 22:46 -]:
The gnome-system-tools have stopped working for me completely now in
Feisty Fawn. I'm not sure since when, when it doesn't work, my first
reaction is I can do this faster on commandline, so lets do so.
Can you please open a
The gnome-system-tools have stopped working for me completely now in
Feisty Fawn. I'm not sure since when, when it doesn't work, my first
reaction is I can do this faster on commandline, so lets do so.
Right now, all tools show start up nice, ask for a password, but then show an
empty list
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Accepted into edgy-updates. Thanks for preparing!
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Erm, of course I meant 'accepted into edgy-proposed'. Sorry for the
typo.
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xubuntu-system-tools has been regression tested and it looks good.
x-s-t is approved for upload to edgy-updates.
Thanks!
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All packages uploaded to edgy-updates and accepted.
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... including x-s-t.
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gnome-system-tools, system-tools-backends, gnome-panel, gnome-applets,
and gnome-netstatus are approved for upload into edgy-updates. They
have been regression tested to continue setting preferences while
requiring password authentication.
gnome-nettool has not been tested, so it will break in
x-s-t has not yet been approved for proposed so it cannot be easily tested.
If the new system-tools-backends goes in edgy-updates it can break un-updated
x-s-t, as is the case now for those xubuntu users who have ubuntu-proposed in
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http://librarian.launchpad.net/5767658/d.diff approved for edgy-
proposed, but please mention this bug number in the changelog too. Also,
isn't there a debian/patches/00list file that needs to be edited to
include the crash fix from Sebastien, as there was for gnome-system-
tools?
After talking
I'm testing the patches, and will upload if it's OK.
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Colin, thanks for approving. There's no 00list file as x-s-t uses CDBS so the
patch being there does it. Gauvain, feel free to upload if the diff works for
you, then please ping the xubuntu-devel list thread of two weeks ago so people
complaining about the breakage
update and test again.
The patch works fine for me. I've added a reference to the bug number,
added the missing line in the changelog, and uploaded to edgy-proposed.
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This adds the same patch to x-s-t as g-s-t has, dropping the nautilus
bits as they are not built for x-s-t. Also added the two small patches
from bug 69566 that fix crashers and are already in edgy-updates for
g-s-t.
** Attachment added: x-s-t patch
** Also affects: xubuntu-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
** Changed in: xubuntu-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed
Target: None = edgy-updates
** Changed in: xubuntu-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided = High
I've approved the second update to gnome-system-tools, uploaded by
Martin (http://librarian.launchpad.net/5593422/g-s-t.edgy-2.debdiff has
the diff).
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this affects xubuntu-system-tools as well (it's still a separate source
package even if the same upstream tarball - Gauvain has a solution for
this), a corresponding debdiff and SRU will follow shortly as a separate
LP bug if required.
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On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 11:49:07AM -, Jani Monoses wrote:
this affects xubuntu-system-tools as well (it's still a separate source
package even if the same upstream tarball - Gauvain has a solution for
this), a corresponding debdiff and SRU will follow shortly as a separate
LP bug if
Martin: http://librarian.launchpad.net/5593422/g-s-t.edgy-2.debdiff is
OK for edgy-proposed.
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Sebastien: Yes, I would be inclined to fix gnome-nettool in edgy.
http://librarian.launchpad.net/5484068/05_gksu_for_network_admin.patch
is OK with some appropriate changelog entry.
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Colin: Thanks for review, I uploaded the new gnome-system-tools
2.15.5-0ubuntu5~prop2.
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I fixed bug 76055 in Feisty and prepared and tested the bug fix for
Edgy, attaching debdiff. Apart from calling shares-admin with gksu in
the nautilus plugin, this also requires to fix shares-admin itself for
root operation. Its initialization function indirectly connects to the
session dbus (thus
bug #76055 has been opened about the edgy-proposed update, the shares-
admin feature for nautilus requite a patch to use gksu
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fixed to feisty, I've patch gnome-nettool too, there was a similar bug
open on it
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gnome-nettool was already lacking a change for that on dapper, that's
not a regression and we had only one bug about about it, not sure if we
want to backport the fixed to edgy
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g-s-t and s-t-b are fixed in Feisty. Talked with Seb, he wants to apply
the remaining minor bits (panel, applets, netstatus) with the next round
of regular updates.
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu)
Assignee: Martin Pitt = Sebastien Bacher
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All fixes accepted into edgy-proposed. Please proceed to testing now.
** Changed in: gnome-system-tools (Ubuntu Edgy)
Status: In Progress = Fix Committed
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
- On my edgy system, the tools bundled within gnome-system-tools
Updated s-t-b patch with an added conflicts to earlier system-tools that
didn't gksu.
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Fixed memory leak, thank to Colin for spotting.
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Setting to 'in progress' to comply with SRU updating practice and
catching Colin's awareness.
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I have the fix ready for feisty, upload pending unfreezing the archive.
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Patch for gnome-system-tools.
It changes all *.desktop files to execute the frontend through gksu, and
adds the 'X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true' flag, so that only administrators
will see the programs in the menu (this is what it looked like in
dapper).
The patch to time-tool is necessary because it
Patch for gnome-system-tools.
It changes all *.desktop files to execute the frontend through gksu, and
adds the 'X-KDE-SubstituteUID=true' flag, so that only administrators
will see the programs in the menu (this is what it looked like in
dapper).
The patch to time-tool is necessary because it
(Sorry for the previous double comment, LP timed out)
Patch for system-tools-backends.
This changes the s-t-b admin group from 'admin' to 'root', so that
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/system-tools-backends.conf does not allow access to
members of the admin group any more, i. e. it changes
policy
** Description changed:
Binary package hint: gnome-system-tools
On my edgy system, the tools bundled within gnome-system-tools can be
launched without entering a password. Even by a user that shoult not be allowed
to run it. Once launched, it still performs well, modifying the system
So it turned out that some more fixes are required in applets that call
one of the g-s-t tools. They have to be changed to run that tool through
gksudo.
First, clock-applet (from gnome-panel). The command string is fed
through g_shell_parse_argv(), thus the simple string change works.
This has
Next, modemlights in gnome-applets. Same approach, just here we need to
prepend 'gksu --' since network-admin is called with options, and gksu
must not process them.
** Attachment added: gnome-applets debdiff for edgy-proposed
http://librarian.launchpad.net/5249210/gnome-applets.edgy.diff
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And, last but not least, gnome-netstatus. Same old story, prepending
'gksu --' to the network-admin command callout.
** Attachment added: gnome-netstatus debdiff for edgy-proposed
http://librarian.launchpad.net/5250750/gnome-netstatus.edgy.diff
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I've discussed that with Martin on IRC during the week, that seems the
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Many people running ubuntu work with only one user (which is in the
administrator's group) - and this is also the default.
Considering this, it is really a great security risk that the admin
tools do not check the password because if the admin user gets
compromised, one can easily add a new user,
Le mercredi 29 novembre 2006 à 20:19 +, Kurt a écrit :
Considering this, it is really a great security risk that the admin
tools do not check the password because if the admin user gets
compromised, one can easily add a new user, log in as this one and do
everything.
The admin user
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:14:46PM -, Sebastien Bacher wrote:
Are you making that from that only bug? Adding complexity to the system
will not prevent bugs to happen. All the versions of Ubuntu are meant to
be stable and secure and I don't think that calling edgy unsecure is a
fair
Sebastien Bacher wrote:
Are you making that from that only bug? Adding complexity to the system
will not prevent bugs to happen. All the versions of Ubuntu are meant to
be stable and secure and I don't think that calling edgy unsecure is a
fair statement. Using those tools require to be logged
For me the error occured when I wanted to disable some services via
services-admin. Accidentally I unchecked dbus. And since there was the
problem.
Fix:
Run Synaptic (should still work)
Re-Install following packages:
-gnome-system-tools
-system-tools-backend
-dbus
-libdbus-1-3
(or simply all
Sorry forgot something:
Now after Rebooting I experienced, that e.g. services-admin starts without
asking permissions. Then you need to run alacarte menu editor and check the
section System Administration and put gksu before these commands:
gksu gdmsetup
gksu users-admin
gksu time-admin
gksu
Instructions by Justin Dugger solved my problem. I guess some kind of
check script should be pushed as an update of some sort, to make sure
this is solved on all systems.
Not that this matters in my case, I need to completely re-install Ubuntu
because of all the upgrade issues :(
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After upgrade I was bitten by https://launchpad.net/bugs/69145 as I
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adding admin by hand, but what does admin signify that adm does
not? My /etc/sudoers has adm and I was (and am) a member of adm,
but that was apparantly not
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Darn. I thought I had rebooted the box. It's working now.
So apparently this is caused by an earlier version of Ubuntu (say
Dapper?) and when upgrading to Edgy the admin group isn't created?
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Le mardi 31 octobre 2006 à 16:23 +, Aaron C. de Bruyn a écrit :
Darn. I thought I had rebooted the box. It's working now.
So apparently this is caused by an earlier version of Ubuntu (say
Dapper?) and when upgrading to Edgy the admin group isn't created?
that's happening for people who
Breezy - Dapper - Edgy
Rebooted several times. Still not solved.
Maybe this helps. The username I'm using is 'tom' which was created
during the breezy installation. This user is in the following groups:
$ cat /etc/group |grep tom
adm:x:4:tom
dialout:x:20:tom,cupsys
cdrom:x:24:tom,hal,haldaemon
Tom,
Clearly the upgrade didn't add user tom to the admin group, or possibly even
create one.
Workaround:
1. run gksudo users-admin
2. Click manage groups
3. Click add Group
4. Put admin as the name of the group, and put whatever users you want to
allow to change system wide settings such as
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