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Synaptic launcher is asking me for root password

Bug #29965 reported by Darryl Clarke
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synaptic (Ubuntu)
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Medium
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Bug Description

Dapper Current

$ apt-cache policy synaptic
synaptic:
  Installed: 0.57.6ubuntu3
  Candidate: 0.57.6ubuntu3

The synaptic launcher System -> Administration -> Synaptic is promting me for root password.

The launcher file itself: /usr/share/applications/synaptic.desktop
is using 'gksu' instead of 'gksudo'

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Chris Peterman (kyral) wrote :

Confirmed

Changed in synaptic:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Darryl Clarke (dclarke) wrote :

This has been fixed in 0.57.8ubuntu1

Changed in synaptic:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Fernando Miguel (fernandomiguel) wrote : [gutsy] Re: Synaptic launcher is asking me for root password

I'm having this problem with Gutsy.
Its asking me for the root password for anything that uses GKSU / GKSUDO instead of the user admin's pass.

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