Bug#272133: gksu: better error message if password is wrong

Gustavo Noronha Silva Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>, 272133@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:32:40 -0300


reassign 272133 libgksu1.2-0
thanks

Hey Michael!

> A more descriptive error message would be nice if the user does not
> enter the correct password. Right now, the message is:=20
>=20
> "Failed to run %s as user root:
>  Child terminated with 1 status"
>=20
> 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.

I already try to do that, but it seems it's not working. I'll take a look.

Thanks,

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