Bug#533089: gnome-terminal: Root Terminal disabled?

[Patrick Wiseman]

Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.26.2-1
Severity: normal


I'm adding to this bug report against gnome-terminal although it might 
be more properly filed against gconf.  Or even dbus, I suppose.  But the 
inability to 'su gnome-terminal' or 'gksu gnome-terminal' or 'sudo 
gnome-terminal' or any other variant is a SERIOUS limitation.  And it 
does little for security because I can always 'su' WITHIN a 
gnome-terminal (but that has to be repeated for every terminal opened in 
a tab), so what's the point?

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-2-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii  gnome-terminal-data          2.26.2-1    Data files for the GNOME terminal 
ii  libatk1.0-0                  1.26.0-1    The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                        2.9-12      GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2             0.80-4      simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgconf2-4                  2.26.2-1    GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libglib2.0-0                 2.20.1-2    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgtk2.0-0                  2.16.1-2    The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  libice6                      2:1.0.5-1   X11 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii  libpango1.0-0                1.24.0-3+b1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libsm6                       2:1.1.0-2   X11 Session Management library
ii  libstartup-notification0     0.10-1      library for program launch feedbac
ii  libvte9                      1:0.20.1-1  Terminal emulator widget for GTK+ 
ii  libx11-6                     2:1.2.1-1   X11 client-side library

Versions of packages gnome-terminal recommends:
ii  gvfs                          1.2.2-2    userspace virtual filesystem - ser
ii  yelp                          2.24.0-2   Help browser for GNOME 2

gnome-terminal suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information