On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 08:22:49AM -0300, Ben Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
heard to say:
> This isn't merely a matter of convenience for Debian-live. The live CDs
> produced by live-helper use casper which sets no root password. Instead
> the live user uses sudo. Thus, the aptitude menu entry that starts aptitude
> in a terminal as the current user is broken. When root is required, the user
> is prompted for the root password by do_su_to_root(). Of course, since there
> is no root password, there is nothing the user can do to proceed.
>
> As Matt Zimmerman suggested, this should really be a config option. So far,
> we have patched Debian's casper to set the appropriate config options for
> kdesu and gksu, and the 'menu' package's su-to-root wrapper (see #410875) to
> all use sudo. We only need this problem with aptitude to be resolved for
> all standard sytem utilities requiring root to work properly when launched
> from the menu on a Debian live CD.
I've added a patch in darcs that lets you set Aptitude::Get-Root-Command to
"su", "sudo", or something like
"sudo:/usr/bin/gksudo --"
where "sudo:" means that it'll use the sudo "protocol" (pass the command to
run as the remaining arguments, rather than using -c).
This won't make it work with gksudo, however; gksudo redirects stdin from
/dev/null unconditionally (bug filing in progress), which unsurprisingly causes
aptitude to wreck the terminal and then hang. Maybe something like
"sudo:/usr/bin/gksudo -- x-terminal-emulator -e"
would do what you want for the time being.
Daniel
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