This is unquestionably a bug in the Ubuntu SWAT package.  If you can't
log into SWAT as an administrator on a standard Ubuntu system, then the
package is broken.

Not only that, but the Importance level of "Low" is wrong, since the
package is not functional as installed.

If the SWAT developers cannot or will not change the software to allow
the Ubuntu admin model to work properly, then the Ubuntu developers need
to make those changes to the package on their own.  If they can't or
don't want to, then SWAT should be dropped as a supported Ubuntu package
as it cannot be implemented correctly in Ubuntu.  It can be added to
universe or similar instead.

At the very, very least there should be something added to the SWAT
package that pops up a message dialog when it is installed, explaining
the situation to the user and describing how to work around it.

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SWAT expects to authenticate as root
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/5608
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