Quoting Josselin Mouette (j...@debian.org): > 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.
At first glance, both might need the chosen suggestion to be sent as a bug report against "user-setup".
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