Bug#454624: Info received (Bug#454624: gksu doesn't ask for a password and runs apps as root)

[Gustavo Noronha Silva]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 07:49:43PM +0100, Nicolas wrote:
> Mmmmm... Just rebooted my xx-uptime days computer, and then the gksu
> window appears normally.
> As regards to the password not requested, perhaps was it in cache ?

gksu, when used with the su backend, will have checkboxes to make it
remember the password for the whole session or to store it in the GNOME
Keyring for good. You probably had the password stored for your session,
and the screen that appeared blank was telling you just that: that gksu
was going to run the program without asking for the password.

We have a bug here, indeed: that translation has invalid characters, but
as for the password caching, that seems to be working as intended =).

Thanks!

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Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov at debian.org>
Debian Developer http://www.debian.org/