checks "admin" group membership instead of querying polkit
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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PolicyKit |
Unknown
|
Medium
|
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language-selector (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson | ||
Trusty |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
trusty SRU request
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[Impact]
The language-selector UI distinguishes between admin and standard users in such a way that certain buttons for doing things which require admin privileges are greyed out for standard users. This bug report describes an authorization setup where this design is inconvenient. It's reasonable to change the design and make the buttons sensitive for all users.
[Test Case]
If you log in into a standard user account and open gnome-language-
[Regression Potential]
When you start gnome-language-
[Original 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-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Mon Jun 4 08:20:04 2012
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
LANGUAGE=en_US:
TERM=screen-
PATH=(custom, no user)
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: language-selector
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
Changed in policykit: | |
importance: | Unknown → Medium |
status: | Unknown → Confirmed |
Changed in language-selector (Ubuntu Trusty): | |
assignee: | nobody → Gunnar Hjalmarsson (gunnarhj) |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → In Progress |
Changed in policykit: | |
status: | Confirmed → Unknown |
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.