On Mo, 2010-11-22 at 18:00 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le lundi 22 novembre 2010 à 17:56 +0100, Julian Andres Klode a écrit : > > On Mo, 2010-11-22 at 17:47 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > note that in Debian the group name for automatic admin rights has been > > > fixed to “sudo”, and is implemented by both sudo and PolicyKit. > > > > > > Update-manager should be fixed to use that name instead of “admin”. > > OK. > > > > > > > > Furthermore, I think update-notifier should still be launched when the > > > sudo group exists without the user being in it. However it should not > > > propose to install the updates in this case, just warn when some of them > > > are in progress and warn that a reboot is in order. > > > > > > This would be extremely helpful, since when the sysadmin does an > > > operation, the user would know about it, and he would also be told to > > > reboot. > > Maybe too late for squeeze, but I'll see what I can do. > > Beware, since if you do the admin→sudo change, the sudo group exists on > a lot of machines (as soon as sudo is installed) :) > So maybe those two changes should be coordinated, I’m not sure.
Behavior will only change for new installations, I change the code to treat an empty sudo group equally to no sudo group, meaning that if noone is configured for default sudo, everyone is considered. -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
