- Package:
- gnome-shell
- Source:
- gnome-shell
- Description:
- graphical shell for the GNOME desktop
- Submitter:
- Kyle Robbertze
- Date:
- 2023-12-03 15:45:03 UTC
- Severity:
- normal
Dear Maintainer, When there are multiple admininstrator users (set-up using Gnome Settings -> Users) who are in the sudo group, the authentication dialog that prompts for superuser access only displays the option to authenticate as the first admin user. Steps to reproduce: 1. On a clean sid install, create two aditional users in GNOME settings. One user should be an Administrator, while the other should be a Standard user. Set their passwords when creating the account. 2. Reboot and log on as the standard user 3. Try install software from GNOME Software. The authentication dialog will only show the original user for authentication I expected some clear way to change the user I wish to authenticate as so that I could authenticate as any admin user. I have not changed the default polkit config and so all users in the sudo group are admin users in polkit's eyes. Verifying using groups indicates that both admin users are in the sudo group.
This is still a problem. And here's a scenario where it's worse! Which happened to me. User "helena" is marked admin. But has never logged in, so as yet has no password set. User "barak" is logged in, and wants to run synaptic. That user is set up to allow sudo with no password. But oops, synaptic wants him to fill in helena's password. Which does not exist. And the authentication dialog has grabbed everything: cannot exit or abort, cannot switch virtual consoles. Completely unresponsive. Only options are to hit the power button, or log in from another host via ssh and figure out which is the bad process and kill it. Neither of these are things we should require from a normal user.