When I ('ben') am logged into my wife's ('pig') account, I can open
'Users and Groups' normally (as Pig isn't a sudo'er) and there is a nice
'Unlock' key, which allows any administrator hanging around to choose
their ID and authorise with their own password.With 'gksu' launchers, it becomes a little more painful, have to get a terminal going (bummer, shortcut doesn't work in her account, have to type 'gnome-terminal') and do 'su ben' and then 'gksu' whatever. Mixing up GUI and terminal is a bit of a pain sometimes - 'Appearance' works in one launcher, whereas you need 'gnome-appearance-properties' for terminal. In order to elevate the experience, there needs to be a shortcut. When a NON sudo'er tries to sudo anything, rather than threatening to report me to myself, I'd prefer to be faced with an authentication panel. If there is an 'open as Adminstrator' option, then it should work for an administrator anywhere and everywhere. Please fix this or I'll stab you through the heart with a plastic fork. (actually I'm more worried about newer users, because it's enough to hear them complain about how unlike Windows it is at the best of times, and it's worse when they're right). -- Synaptic should be able to switch from non-root to root mode without losing state https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/80753 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
