[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#672140: prompts for root passwords on a sudo-only system

[Joey Hess]

Package: policykit-1
Version: 0.104-2
Severity: serious
Tags: d-i

In d-i, it is very easy to set up a system without entering a root
password. d-i sets up sudo, and configures gksu to use it
(by changing an alternative).

On such a system, I was prompted by policykit for the (nonexistant) root
password when network-manager wanted to authenticate me in order to
associate to a wireless network. I assume policykit prompts for the root
password for other things too.

If there is some setting we can make in d-i to new installs to make
policykit use sudo, please let me know, and I will make it. It wouldn't
solve the problem when upgrading existing installs that use sudo, but
it'd be better than nothing.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages policykit-1 depends on:
ii  consolekit             0.4.5-3
ii  dbus                   1.5.12-1
ii  libc6                  2.13-32
ii  libexpat1              2.1.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.32.2-1
ii  libpam0g               1.1.3-7
ii  libpolkit-agent-1-0    0.104-2
ii  libpolkit-backend-1-0  0.104-2
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0  0.104-2

policykit-1 recommends no packages.

policykit-1 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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see shy jo
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