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

[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 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 installs Debian without a root password? Sudo was installed and  
> configured automatically IIRC, it also just works in Ubuntu. So this is  
> a wishlist priority instead.

Hello Jozsef,

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 do that.

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.

Cheers,
Bill.