Bug#235804: gksu: problem with pam_wheel.so trust group=adm

Gustavo Noronha Silva Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>, 235804@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:45:53 -0300


Em Ter, 2004-04-13 =C3=A0s 23:23 -0400, Edward J. Shornock escreveu:

> For awhile now, gksu would hang after inputting root's password, yet the
> process would still be running.

Hi!

I'm a bit confused. The problem reported by Vinicius seems to be that
gksu should not ask the root password. Your problem seems to be
different: you entered the password and gksu would hang after that.

> Creating a new user, I just added them to the wheel group but NOT to the
> adm group.  gksu worked as intended.  After I removed my username from
> the adm group, I could use gksu as well.  Now I just need to input
> root's password when running "su".

So, this is what confused me. Do you need to enter the password after
that?

Thanks,


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Gustavo Noronha [http://people.debian.org/~kov/]