Allow gksu and a root password to be used in place of gksudo

[Heitor Moraes]

I have a problem with Ubuntu GNOME launchers like "Synaptic Package Manager" in
System menu.
I don't like to use sudo, so a disable sudo and tried to use the launcher (with
my standard user) but it don't work.

It don't work because Ubuntu uses the link gksudo to use gksu.
A good solution to this is set "sudo-mode = yes" in /etc/gksu.conf and use gksu
in the launchers. This will have the same effect of gksudo and will make the
life of some users "not so hard" giving the chance to disable sudo commenting 2
lines in only 2 files: one in /etc/gksu.conf and other in /etc/sudoers.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Sounds reasonable to me; we should probably do this for Breezy

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

right, I'll change that for breezy

[Corey Burger (corey.burger)]

*** Bug 18471 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Hi,

While looking over the list of open bugs I noticed that this one is marked
pending upload but isn't uploaded yet. I changed it to assigned again. Seb128:
Feel free to reassign it to me if you have not enough time [but we may be a bit
late for breezy already] :)

Cheers, Michael

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

*** Bug 24200 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Michael, I change the milestone for dapper since it's a quite easy change and it
bother some people :)

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

I'm a maintainer of custom Ubuntu-based distribution - Baltix GNU/Linux (look at
http://baltix.akl.lt ).
Some Baltix users have problems with launching software, which needs root
privileges on Ubuntu-based systems when they don't want to use sudo.
In next Baltix version I will manually replace gksudo with gksu in
/usr/share/applications/*.desktop files and set "sudo-mode = yes" in /etc/gksu.conf
As Baltix seeks to be compatible with Ubuntu as much as possible it would be
nice to know when you are planing to solve this bug ?

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

With the upload of gksu_1.3.6-1ubuntu6 the default is now to run "sudo" as the
backend of gksu. To do this the schema file in the package was changed to
default to "sudo-mode=True" in gconf. This also means that no more destopfile
patching is needed and that the admin has a central place where he can change
the configuration.