[Foundations] Release meeting 2011-11-25
Martin Pitt
martin.pitt at ubuntu.com
Fri Nov 25 07:40:34 UTC 2011
Martin Pitt [2011-11-25 7:58 +0100]:
> However, I'm fairly sure that there are other places in Ubuntu which
> test for "admin" membership and should now check for both. One that
> comes to my mind is policykit-desktop-privileges (added task, fixing
> as we speak)
Uploaded.
> but we also need to look for this in e. g.
> accountsservice/gnome-control-center (which group to put users in
> when you mark them as "admin"),
Uploaded accountsservice to recognize both and set "sudo" group for
enabling users to become admins.
That's everything on the Ubuntu side which I'm aware of now. But I'm
sure that somewhere out there are more packages which assume the
"admin" group, as we have used that for 7 years now.
> presumably the corresponding KDE part, etc.
Haven't checked that. Jonathan?
Thanks,
Martin
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