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rated 0 times [ 0] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 2967 / 2 Years ago, tue, june 7, 2022, 12:57:01

I have a krb5-ldap user in an "administrators" which is added to sudoers list as follows:

%administrators ALL=(ALL) ALL

Now that works fine for all sudo operations.

But when that user wants to install something in the Ubuntu Software Center, he gets prompted for the password of a local "admin" user.

I have no idea why it would behave that way. How can I fix this?

Update

Also tried to add these users to the sudo groups with pam-groups in /etc/security/group.conf:

*;*;%administrators;Al0000-2400;sudo

The sudo group now shows up correctly in groups, however the software center still asks for the password for another, local user.

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answered 2 Years ago tonhorn · Accepted Answer

The solution is to add adminstrators to the policy kit in /etc/polkit-1/localauthority.conf.d/51-ubuntu-admin.conf:

[Configuration]

AdminIdentities=unix-group:sudo;unix-group:admin;unix-group:administrators