Bug 484120 - Sudo failed: On some systems, you need to be in a special group (often: wheel) to use this program
Summary: Sudo failed: On some systems, you need to be in a special group (often: wheel...
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: partitionmanager
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Andrius Štikonas
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Reported: 2024-03-21 02:19 UTC by vit.musienko@gmail.com
Modified: 2024-03-22 01:50 UTC (History)
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2024-03-21 02:19 UTC, vit.musienko@gmail.com
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Description vit.musienko@gmail.com 2024-03-21 02:19:11 UTC
Created attachment 167536 [details]
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SUMMARY
KDE Partition Manager doesn't let user through after entering root password when elevated access is requested.
Error: On some systems, you need to be in a special group (often: wheel) to use this program.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install the from plasma-discover 
2. Launch
3. Get prompted for root password, enter it
4. ...
5. See an error 

OBSERVED RESULT
Error

EXPECTED RESULT
App launches

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
attached neofetch

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 vit.musienko@gmail.com 2024-03-21 02:49:45 UTC
I have to say, that you can click Ignore, and the next prompt asks for the user password instead, and that succeeds. I was able to do disk modifications that way.
Comment 2 Andrius Štikonas 2024-03-22 01:50:09 UTC
We don't use sudo, we use polkit. Group or which user you need to be generally depends on your polkit configuration in /etc/polkit-1/rules.d, so that's mostly outside the scope of partition manager.

partitionmanager asks polkit for auth_admin_keep option. And if distro does not have root user I think it's up to distro to correctly configure polkit.