gksu is on live cd but not being installed

[Doug McMahon]

So post install if a user uses gksudo <whatever> they'll be prompted to install gksu. That's great & all but many users will be unaware that gksu defaults to "su" & will be looking for the root password which isn't what the user will know or expect.

If you have pkexec replacements for common uses great though I don't see as yet... (gedit, nautilus, gdebi, ect.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubiquity (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.29-generic 3.8.8
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-19-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Apr 23 22:01:51 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-21 (2 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Alpha amd64 (20130418)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Doug McMahon (mc3man)]

No - the intent of this bug is that with no replacement (pkexec) in place for many uses that gksu *should* be installed.

It's been mentioned elsewhere that on 32bit installing gksu gives sudo mode, haven't tried, on 64 bit it definitely is su

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

On 24 April 2013 20:42, Doug McMahon <email address hidden> wrote:
> No - the intent of this bug is that with no replacement (pkexec) in
> place for many uses that gksu *should* be installed.
>
> It's been mentioned elsewhere that on 32bit installing gksu gives sudo
> mode, haven't tried, on 64 bit it definitely is su
>
> ** This bug is no longer a duplicate of bug 1172176
> ubiquity should use pkexec instead of deprecated gksudo
>

This is still imho a duplicate of bug 1172176.

Once ubiquity drops gksu and uses pkexec, gksu will fall off from the
default cds, installation and into the universe.

pkexec is installed by default due to desktop dependencies, and
provides sufficiently similar functionality.
E.g. pkexec gedit - will give a graphical sudo password prompt and
will launch gedit.

gksu should not be used, as pkexec provides higher flexibility and
much better UI/window-manager/touch-keyboard integration.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.

[Dimitri John Ledkov (xnox)]

Furthermore gksu is not the only ubiquity specific dependency that gets removed at the end of the installation. Other dependencies include many filesystem specific utilities that happen to not be used for this particular install e.g. xfs/btrfs/mdadm/lvm/dm-raid utilities and etc.