Bug#336602: gksu: fails when wheel group trusted in /etc/pam.d/su

[Sebastien Villemot]

Package: gksu
Version: 1.3.5-2
Severity: normal

I have uncommented the following line in /etc/pam.d/su:

auth       sufficient pam_wheel.so trust

so that members of group wheel can su without a password.

This settings makes gksu exit after a few seconds without any output
or display (or crash if a password had been given in a
previous session of gksu while the above line was commented).

Commenting the above line restores normal behaviour.

S.V.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-k7
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages gksu depends on:
ii  gconf2                        2.10.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libatk1.0-0                   1.10.3-1   The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii  libc6                         2.3.5-6    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libgconf2-4                   2.10.1-6   GNOME configuration database syste
ii  libgksu1.2-0                  1.3.5-1    library providing su and sudo func
ii  libgksuui1.0-1                1.0.6-1    a graphical fronted to su library
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.8.3-1    The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnome-keyring0             0.4.5-1    GNOME keyring services library
ii  libgtk2.0-0                   2.6.10-1   The GTK+ graphical user interface 
ii  liborbit2                     1:2.12.4-1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii  libpango1.0-0                 1.8.2-3    Layout and rendering of internatio
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-5      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  sudo                          1.6.8p9-3  Provide limited super user privile

gksu recommends no packages.

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