Bug#536490: gnome-system-tools: Asks for root password instead of user password via sudo (root disabled)

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Fri Jul 10 11:11:30 UTC 2009


reassign 536490 policykit
thanks

Le vendredi 10 juillet 2009 à 12:41 +0200, Julien BEHEM a écrit :
> When launching any gnome-system-tools utility and clicking on the
> unlock button, it asks for root password but root account is disabled
> and system is using sudo (working well in console, sudo is well
> configured, and sudo-mode is set to true for gksu in gconf editor).
> I saw an old bugreport of 2008 (number 412982) describing maybe the
> same problem and solved by upgrading to 2.16 or 2.17 version, but i'm
> using 2.22...

This is a current limitation of PolicyKit.

Cheers,
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