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I am currently trying on Arch Linux. And after installing GNOME, I found that, whenever I want to change the administration settings, such as network, shared folders, date and time, users and groups, I am prompted with authentication of the root password. The current user is a wheel user, which is able to use sudo to work properly. What I want is to use the current user for authentication, so that I can lock the root password, just like Ubuntu distribution which does not need to user root password.
Last edited by allencch (2011-03-29 00:18:26)
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Run gksu-properties and set "Authentication mode" to sudo.
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Stebalien, I tried with your method, but the result is still same. Even after restart or logout, I am still prompt with password for root for authentication.
Last edited by allencch (2011-03-25 07:08:25)
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I have solved the problem from the wiki. I didn't follow one of the step, because I thought it is not related to the GNOME, since there is no GNOME keyword. To make the authentication using the current user instead of root, one needs to edit
/etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/50-localauthority.conf
modify the line to
AdminIdentities=unix-group:wheel
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