Bug#163161: marked as done (gnome-sudo: gnome-sudo fails with message "Error copying '/home/user/.Xauthority' to '/tmp/gnome-sudo-j4LO6y': Permission Denied")

Tue, 30 Mar 2004 02:03:04 -0800

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Package: gnome-sudo
Version: 0.3-1
Severity: normal

gnome-sudo: gnome-sudo fails with message

        "Error copying '/home/user/.Xauthority' to '/tmp/gnome-sudo-j4LO6y': Permission Denied"

It does actually create the file in question but with mode 454 (u=r,g=rx,o=r).

-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Kernel Version: Linux butt.houseofdistraction.com 2.4.18-butt-pptp #1 Sun May 12 20:21:09 PDT 2002 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux

Versions of the packages gnome-sudo depends on:
ii  gdk-imlib1     1.9.14-11      imaging library for use with gtk (using libp
ii  libart2        1.4.2-7        The GNOME canvas widget - runtime files.
ii  libaudiofile0  0.2.3-4        The Audiofile Library
ii  libc6          2.2.5-14.3     GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone
ii  libdb3         3.2.9-17       Berkeley v3 Database Libraries [runtime]
ii  libesd-alsa0   0.2.28-2       Enlightened Sound Daemon (ALSA) - Shared lib
ii  libglib1.2     1.2.10-6       The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome32     1.4.2-7        The GNOME libraries
ii  libgnomesuppor 1.4.2-7        The GNOME libraries (Support libraries)
ii  libgnomeui32   1.4.2-7        The GNOME libraries (User Interface)
ii  libgtk1.2      1.2.10-14      The GIMP Toolkit set of widgets for X
ii  sudo           1.6.6-1.1      Provides limited super user privileges to sp
ii  xlibs          4.1.0-17       X Window System client libraries
rc  libesd0        0.2.23-3       Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared libraries

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Subject: Re: Bug#132506: Bug still present?
From: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
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Em Ter, 2004-03-30 =C3=A0s 11:04 +0300, Heikki Kantola escreveu:

> > I've incorporated the gnome-sudo functionality into the gksu
> > program and replaced the gnome-sudo package with it. Could=20
> > you try this bug out and see if it works ok now?
>=20
> Seems to work on this newer system of mine...
>=20
> > You will now call 'gksudo', althought you can still install
> > 'gnome-sudo' and call 'gnome-sudo', too, but that's
> > just a wrapper to gksudo.
>=20
> ...although I recall on the previous machine I did have similar=20
> problems also with gksu, so it must been primarily local problem
> (wrong permissions on some file/directory).

Hmmm... in this case, I'll close the bug and you can reopen it
in case you hit this problem again with gksu, ok?

Thanks,

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