Bug#276432: marked as done (Using gksu as root user)

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From: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
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Subject: Re: Using gksu as root user
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Package: gksu
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On Tue, 28 Sep 2004 09:39:50 +0200
Alvaro del Castillo <acs@lambdaux.com> wrote:

Hi Alvaro!

> I am trying to use "gksu" for several applications in the menus in GNOME
> so the user could have access to apps such Synaptics.
>=20
> But the problem is that if you try to use the root account and gksu, I
> will hope that gksu return and execute the command without sudo or  su
> help, but it hangs waiting for something and the command is never
> executed.=20

I'll take a look at it... I'm filling this as a bug on the gksu package.

Thanks for the report!

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Source: gksu
Source-Version: 1.2.2-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
gksu, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive:

gksu_1.2.2-1.diff.gz
  to pool/main/g/gksu/gksu_1.2.2-1.diff.gz
gksu_1.2.2-1.dsc
  to pool/main/g/gksu/gksu_1.2.2-1.dsc
gksu_1.2.2-1_i386.deb
  to pool/main/g/gksu/gksu_1.2.2-1_i386.deb
gksu_1.2.2.orig.tar.gz
  to pool/main/g/gksu/gksu_1.2.2.orig.tar.gz
gnome-sudo_1.2.2-1_all.deb
  to pool/main/g/gksu/gnome-sudo_1.2.2-1_all.deb



A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 276432@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

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Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org> (supplier of updated gksu package)

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Format: 1.7
Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 19:54:53 -0300
Source: gksu
Binary: gksu gnome-sudo
Architecture: source i386 all
Version: 1.2.2-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
Changed-By: Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov@debian.org>
Description: 
 gksu       - graphical frontend to su
 gnome-sudo - dumb package to provide smooth upgrade to gksu
Closes: 257776 262561 276089 276432 276535
Changes: 
 gksu (1.2.2-1) unstable; urgency=low
 .
   * New upstream release
   - fixes blocking problem on gksuexec (Closes: #276535)
   - fixes typo in help and manpage (Closes: #262561)
   - checks if we're target user before trying to su/sudo
     (Closes: #276432)
   - converts password to system locale before using it
     (Closes: #276089)
   * debian/menu:
   - use 'longtitle' instead of 'hints' (Closes: #257776)
   * debian/patches/00args_parsing.diff:
   - no longer needed, applied upstream
Files: 
 7405e94f96fa0a56e2e3ff1967547fa9 657 admin optional gksu_1.2.2-1.dsc
 564504badbd41fbe554a8133d07b5e94 553299 admin optional gksu_1.2.2.orig.tar.gz
 48ef83313bdc769939117846b90acc78 13356 admin optional gksu_1.2.2-1.diff.gz
 6e474ce8879fd3a1c713acb902240ffa 12314 gnome optional gnome-sudo_1.2.2-1_all.deb
 576728ba123360eed8feaae88ca0e37f 46272 admin optional gksu_1.2.2-1_i386.deb

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