| RoAkSoAx | 6a | 14:18 |
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| raubvogel | When you install ubuntu it asks for an account with sudo (and other) rights. For some reason, when I am running synaptic or whatever gui-based program that needs to elevate rights, that is the account that is asked for (as opposite to the ldap account I am logged into as even though it has sudo rights). Is there a way to change that? | 15:01 |
| maxolasersquad | raubvogel: The password you type in /should/ be for the password for the currently logged-in user. | 15:03 |
| maxolasersquad | I don't have experience with ldap accounts, though I would assume it wouldn't be any different. | 15:03 |
| raubvogel | In my case, synaptic (to use an example) is asking for my local/initial account password | 15:04 |
| maxolasersquad | What is the verbiage? | 15:04 |
| raubvogel | Ok. I was able to duplicate with update manager | 15:06 |
| raubvogel | "An application is attempting to perform an action that requires privileges. Authentication as the suer user is required to perform this action. Password for raub:" | 15:07 |
| raubvogel | s/suer/super/ | 15:07 |
| raubvogel | I can check auth.log | 15:07 |
| maxolasersquad | What version of Ubuntu? | 15:08 |
| raubvogel | 11.10 and 10.10 | 15:09 |
| maxolasersquad | In 11.10 I get a similar message, but the second part reads, "Authentication is required to perform this action. Password:" | 15:10 |
| maxolasersquad | I wonder if there is behavior specific to ldap account. | 15:11 |
| maxolasersquad | I presume "sudo <command>" works fine. | 15:11 |
| raubvogel | maxolasersquad: I have the same message you get with, say, synaptic and a lot of other packages. But some will do that | 15:11 |
| raubvogel | Oh yeah. Sudo does that. However, person with problem is a Mac guy through and through. | 15:12 |
| raubvogel | Command line == witchcraft | 15:12 |
| raubvogel | ;) | 15:12 |
| maxolasersquad | It must be the GUI permissions tool (can't think of the name.) It has other annoying behovior, like if you try to administrer a machine remotely. | 15:13 |
| raubvogel | On my machine (10.10), when I try the update manager, get the dialog message, and then close it, auth.log mentions nothing about my local (raub) user. http://pastebin.com/7Bx3Xm6W | 15:14 |
| maxolasersquad | policykit, that's the name of it | 15:15 |
| zoopster | raubvogel: is this because your ldap user is associated to the local user as described? | 15:29 |
| zoopster | raubvogel: or due to pam not picking up or redirecting auth correctly? | 15:29 |
| raubvogel | zoopster: local and ldap users have different usernames and uids (1000 vs 5019 for ldap) | 15:48 |
| raubvogel | We did that so we can make sure that, say, we can keep kerberos away from local users in /etc/pam.d/common-password | 15:52 |
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