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I have an odd issue that happens on all of the Ubuntu machines I join to my Samba4 domain.

When installing, I create a user named user and then use that user to get the domain going. Everything goes smoothly after domain join, and I can login with first.last and password to the machine.

However, when logged in, if I try an administrative action in GNOME, such as opening a VPN for all users, it asks for the password for user vs first.last (or even root). How can I adjust this?

Thanks!

Fmstrat
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In fact adding domain users in sudoers is not enought as it will ask for local admin account for administrative tasks such as installing packages throught the GUI. It's not convenient to do everything in sudo command line.

So you have to edit the etc/group file and add the domain user in the "adm" group just like that :

adm:x:4:syslog,somelocaladmin,domain.user@domain.local

Max Power
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Gnome uses PolKit for authorization checks. By default root and the group sudo is considered as admins.

You just need to add first.last to the sudo group:

adduser first.last sudo
Piotr P. Karwasz
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