This appears to be deliberate. Here's Steve's changelog:
- Don't set up the admin group or add the user to it; the sudo package
now always sets up the sudo group on install, so we can as well use
this group as the admin group. This will be inconsistent with
previous Ubuntu releases, but consistent with Debian and compatible
with sudo.
I think, for compatibility, policykit-1's configuration should allow
both the admin and sudo groups.
** Package changed: user-setup (Ubuntu Precise) => policykit-1 (Ubuntu
Precise)
** Changed in: policykit-1 (Ubuntu Precise)
Assignee: Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) => Canonical
Desktop Team (canonical-desktop-team)
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installer doesn't add admin username to admin group causing many
polkit action to request "root" password
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