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[breezy] Clock doesn't accept sudo to adjust time

Bug #23477 reported by Craig Sampson on 2005-10-08

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #16139: document that initial user isn't set up for sudo when root password is set. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	shadow (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

If trying to adjust the time of the panel clock (2.12.1) doesn't accept sudo as
authentication method. Brings up an error dialog box as below:

"Failed to run time-admin as user root:
The underlying authorization mechanism (sudo) does not allow you to run this
program. Contact the system administrator."

Entering either the root password or the sudo users password does not work.

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote on 2005-10-08:

Works fine for me. Are you sure the user is in the sudoers file?

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-10-08:

Thanks for your bug. Does it work with other applications? How have you
configured your account?

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Craig Sampson (ubuntu-psi-aus) wrote on 2005-10-10:

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks for your bug. Does it work with other applications? How have you
> configured your account?

Both you and Dennis Kaarsemaker (above) are correct. I have made a mistaken
assumption. This bug should probably be closed but a new one opened - I'm
unsure where to direct the new bug to though. My line of thinking goes like this:

- I do "server" or "server-expert" installs, an unpriviliged user account is set
up under these conditions much like a standard install

- I assumed (and was wrong), that as a standard user is set up at install time
that this user would be automatically plonked into the sudoers file (as per
standard install)

- As this is not the case, and as GDM does not accept root logins by default,
anyone doing a server install will not be able to complete any standard
administrative tasks without manually adjusting either gdm.conf (to allow root
login to X) or sudoers.

It could well be argued I suppose that those of us doing server or server-expert
installs should know enough to do this, I'm somewhat embarressed I must say.
However, would it not be more consistent to allow, even under server installs,
the first user account access to sudo as you would expect to happen under
standard installs?

Its a consistency thing I suppose.

Best regards,
Craig

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote on 2005-10-10:

Filing this as an enhancement against ubuntu-meta since the request now is to
setup sudo in an ubuntu-base environment too.

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Craig Sampson (ubuntu-psi-aus) wrote on 2005-10-10:

(In reply to comment #4)
> Filing this as an enhancement against ubuntu-meta since the request now is to
> setup sudo in an ubuntu-base environment too.

Thanks Dennis

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2005-10-10:

duplicate of #9832

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16139.