Bug#323836: gksu segfaults when given a non-existant username

[Dennis Brakhane]

Package: gksu
Version: 1.3.3-1
Severity: normal

$ gksu -u existant_user ls
[... works ...]
$ gksu -u nonexistant_username ls
Segmentation fault

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=de_DE at euro, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.10.1-2   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-3    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.10.1-1   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgksu1.2-0                  1.3.3-1    library providing su and sudo func
ii  libgksuui1.0-1                1.0.6-1    a graphical fronted to su library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.8.0-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0             0.4.3-1    GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.6.9-1    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                     1:2.12.2-3 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.8.2-1    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-5      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  sudo                          1.6.8p9-2  Provide limited super user privile

gksu recommends no packages.

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