Re: [Gnewsense-dev] su-to-root problem (synaptic, etc)

[Sam Geeraerts]

Graziano Sorbaioli schreef:
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> Graziano Sorbaioli ha scritto:
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> > I booted my yeeloong, login into gnome, open a terminal,
> > launch a sudo wvdial, insert my password.
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> > Then  I tried to launch
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> > gksu /usr/sbin/synaptic
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> > and it worked the first time!
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> I can confirm this behaviour.
> It happened again.
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> After a normal boot, gnome, etc. I tried to launch
> system -> administration -> login window
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> It didn't work.
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> I opened a shell, used sudo one time with a random command:
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> sudo wvdial
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> then I tried again to click on
> system -> administration -> login window
>
> and it worked.

I can confirm this: using sudo once in the terminal enables gksu and 
su-to-root, both on the terminal and from the menu. They both give a 
warning about the application being run as root without asking for a 
password.