[Bug 1008344] Re: checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2012-12-31 20:54, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 31, 2012 at 06:16:40PM -0000, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Seems like it says "no, but you can authenticate by providing the
>> credentials for an admin user". And that's not what we want to
>> know, is it?
> 
> Yes, it is.  That's how polkit works

Let's not forget the context, please. language-selector contains some
buttons for accomplishing tasks that only admin users are allowed to do.
Those buttons are greyed out for non-admin users.

It seems to me that polkit is not designed to provide the info necessary
to distinguish beforehand between admin and non-admin users. I suppose
you agree that the answer "no, but you can authenticate by providing the
credentials for an admin user" isn't useful for that purpose. If you
don't, I may be missing something.

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Title:
  checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit

Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  In a new install of Ubuntu Precise, I cannot make any system-wide
  changes in the language selector (such as installing languages or
  clicking "Apply System-Wide"), only user-specific changes. All those
  controls for system-wide changes are greyed out, although my user does
  have sudo abilities and I would be able to enter the root password of
  the machine.

  The machine is freshly installed, but with customizations specific to
  our site, e.g. ldap authentication for users. Specifically, my user is
  an ldap user, not a local one, and there is a group in the ldap
  directory which was granted sudo capability by adding it to
  /etc/sudoers. My user is part of that group. sudo on the command line
  and gksudo work fine.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
  Package: language-selector-gnome 0.79
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.39-generic 3.2.16
  Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Mon Jun  4 08:20:04 2012
  PackageArchitecture: all
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_US:
   TERM=screen-256color
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: language-selector
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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