Hi, currently, depending on the “sudo mode” which is set during installation, d-i configures gksu to use sudo mode by default (with a GConf key).
However, an increasing number of packages use policykit instead of gksu
to obtain root access, so we need some changes on this matter.
Actually there are two very simple solutions, so it is really a matter
of what design you prefer.
1. (Stolen from Ubuntu) Create a new “admin” group, modify
policykit to accept self-authentication for all members of the
admin group. Let d-i simply add the user to group admin if in
sudo mode. Bonus points for using the admin group in sudo too
instead of hardcoding the username.
2. Let d-i create a file somewhere in /etc/polkit-1 that will add
the created user to the list of users authorized to
self-authenticate.
In both cases the modifications to d-i should be very straightforward,
but I think this needs to be done for squeeze for the sake of
consistency.
Cheers,
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