Bug#272133: marked as done (gksu: better error message if password is wrong)

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From: Michael Vogt <mvogt@acm.org>
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Subject: gksu: better error message if password is wrong
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Package: gksu
Version: 1.2.1-1
Severity: wishlist

A more descriptive error message would be nice if the user does not
enter the correct password. Right now, the message is: 

"Failed to run %s as user root:
 Child terminated with 1 status"

not all users understand that this is caused due a wrong password.  It
may be better to use the string from su ("su: Authentication failure")
and present it to the user.

thanks,
 Michael

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.26
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0               1.6.1-3        The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                     2.3.2.ds1-16   GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgksu1.2-0              1.2.3-1        library providing su and sudo func
ii  libgksuui1.0-0            1.0.1-1        a graphical fronted to su library
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.4.6-2        The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.4.4-2        The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libpango1.0-0             1.4.1-2        Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libx11-6                  4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System protocol client li
ii  xlibs                     4.3.0.dfsg.1-6 X Window System client libraries m

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From: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
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Source: libgksu1.2
Source-Version: 1.2.5-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
libgksu1.2, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

libgksu1.2-0_1.2.5-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libg/libgksu1.2/libgksu1.2-0_1.2.5-1_i386.deb
libgksu1.2-dev_1.2.5-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/libg/libgksu1.2/libgksu1.2-dev_1.2.5-1_i386.deb
libgksu1.2_1.2.5-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/libg/libgksu1.2/libgksu1.2_1.2.5-1.diff.gz
libgksu1.2_1.2.5-1.dsc
  to pool/main/libg/libgksu1.2/libgksu1.2_1.2.5-1.dsc
libgksu1.2_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/libg/libgksu1.2/libgksu1.2_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 272133@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> (supplier of updated libgksu1.2 package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2004 18:00:44 -0300
Source: libgksu1.2
Binary: libgksu1.2-dev libgksu1.2-0
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.2.5-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
Changed-By: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
Description: 
 libgksu1.2-0 - library providing su and sudo functionality
 libgksu1.2-dev - library providing su and sudo functionality (development files)
Closes: 272133 273819 276720
Changes: 
 libgksu1.2 (1.2.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release
   - includes fixes for correct reading the output of
     gksu-run-helper, reporting wrong password typing
     (Closes: #272133)
   - no longer ignores context->keep_env when doing sudo
     stuff (Closes: #276720)
   - better handling of remote usage, no longer segfaults
     when running remotely (Closes: #273819)
   * urgency set to medium because not many things were changed
     and these fixes should go into sarge
Files: 
 203710bad82c213d41cd6416dba15fec 668 admin optional libgksu1.2_1.2.5-1.dsc
 b6ade96e383c084e2447da222cdb590d 560922 admin optional libgksu1.2_1.2.5.orig.tar.gz
 26805f519d1a366eb1c66c97610aaeaa 6285 admin optional libgksu1.2_1.2.5-1.diff.gz
 d659d4693ce6bf58bc8a56cde7de3b73 27158 libs optional libgksu1.2-0_1.2.5-1_i386.deb
 041b27ee8a5069f572904cb8d805e10b 21886 libdevel optional libgksu1.2-dev_1.2.5-1_i386.deb

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