Bug#412983: gnome-panel: Adjust date & time: root password should be reasked if wrong

[Olaf van der Spek]

On 3/1/07, Sven Arvidsson <sa at whiz.se> wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 16:20 +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> > When the root password is wrong, an error message is given and the
> > dialog is closed. Could the root password be asked again instead?
> >
> > I'd be even nicer to show the error message in the ask password dialog
> > itself so you can skip one dialog.
>
> This is because time-admin (from gnome-system tools) doesn't use gksu
> when launched from the panel. When gksu is used, you will get the
> behaviour you describe above.
>
> I do believe this is fixed upstream in gnome-system-tools 2.16 or 2.17.

Hmm, I guess I better stop reporting bugs until 2.16 hits Debian (unstable).

I'll say again, it's a shame Etch ships with 2.14.