gnome-at-properties Accessibile Login button tries to run gdmsetup without super user permissions

Thank you for your report and patch. Here is a debdiff.

Can somebody take a look at the debdiff? Thanks.

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Let's see what the developers said. thanks.

Thank you for the patch, I've changed it to call "gksu" and it'll uploaded with the new version

gnome-control-center (1:2.19.91-0ubuntu1) gutsy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    about-me:
    - Honor mail address attributes when setting up Home and Work addresses
    appearance:
    - Don't leak the cursor font
    - Fix double-free and make the builtins non-static to save relocations
    - Properly check all installed themes if necessary
    - Free the metacity theme after use
    - Correct the item width and enable line wrapping for long theme names
    - If no background image set, select "no wallpaper"
    - Simply set the upper bound of the DPI spin button to the maximum we
      consider acceptable (LP: #134142)
    - Don't mark gtk-delete stock id for translation
    - Always generate thumbnails asynchronously
    default applications:
    - Add browser and mail entries Iceape
    - Use the new -new-tab and -new-window arguments instead of -remote for
      Firefox tab and window commands
    keyboard:
    - Disable "delete" button when no layout is selected
    - Make "Add label" string translatable
    settings daemon:
    - Use a list instead of a hash table to store the settings modules
    - Raise the volume when unmuting
    - Show X keyboard settings warning dialog delayed, so that it runs properly
      centered and with decorations
    - Initialize XKB config early so that callback would not crash (LP: #133576)
    general:
    - Hide the password in displayed URIs when transfering files
    updated translations
  * debian/patches/18_add_onboard_to_preferred_apps.patch:
    - patch from Chris Jones, "onboard still called sok in preferred apps list"
      (LP: #135381)
  * debian/patches/71_at_properties_gksudo_gdmsetup.patch:
    - patch from Chris Jones slightly modified to run gdmsetup with gksu
      (LP: #134958)
  * debian/patches/95_desktop-effects-integration.patch:
    - updated, limit glade changes to the new tab (LP: #129698)
  * debian/patches/99_autoreconf.patch:
    - updated
  * debian/patches/100_at_properties_readd_gksudo_disable_grab_toggle.patch:
    - patch from Chris Jones,
      "no gksu/disable-grab option per gui in gnome-at-properties" (LP: #133674)
  * debian/patches/101_gnome_at_properties_active_preferred_apps_without_at.patch:
    - patch from Chris Jones, to not "prevents access to preferred apps dialog
      when assistive technologies is not enabled" (LP: #135401)

 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:26:10 +0200

gnome-control-center (1:2.21.2-0ubuntu1) hardy; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    about-me:
    - Add another string to the list of recognized error returns from passwd
    - Don't get confused when the user does not have a password set and passwd
      immediately asks for the new one
    appearance:
    - Fix build without libXcursor
    - Be more careful when reading background information from GConf and
      make sure we don't choke on NULL values later on
    keyboard:
    - Fix warnings and don't use deprecated signal API from GTK
    - Move layout options to separate popup
    - Rename first tab to "General"
    - Replace text entry and "Choose.." button for keyboard model with a
      single chooser button
    - Don't include keyboard model description in Glade file
    localization:
    - Added (very basic skeleton of) localization capplet
    shell:
    - Remove reference to non-existing background.desktop
    settings daemon:
    - Make composited media popup window sizes scale with the screen size
    common:
    - Remove more redundant info from the theme changed callback
    updated translations
    appearance:
    - Unify "invalid theme" error messages and be a bit more verbose
    - Reword the "theme engine" error message
    - Add support for dragging images from the background list
    - Make theme sorting case insensitive
    - Fix crash if we fail to convert a filename to UTF-8
    - Use NoDisplay=true instead of OnlyShowIn=; (LP: #152453)
    - Return a new theme instead of munging whatever got passed in
    - Take cursor size into account when comparing themes
    - Watch cursor theme/size GConf keys for changes
    - Move cursor size widget initialization to Glade, to allow the slider to
      be updated properly on startup
    - Make the cursor themes delete button works
    - If the parent directory is empty after deleting a theme, delete the
      parent directory too
    - Update cursor size GConf value when the theme changes
    - Reduce number of XCURSOR ifdefs and get rid of the special treatment for
      the default cursor theme
    - Add support for live cursor theme updates
    - Read gettext macro that accidentally got stripped
    - Prevent lots of thumbs from being created with the color scheme of the
      currently active theme
    - Actually remove theme data from the hash when the theme gets deleted
    - Fix the cursor size only being updated if the cursor theme changed too
    - Watch /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11 for cursor themes
    - Teach the installer to recognize cursor themes and icon themes with
      cursors
    - Check whether there are multiple themes to install up front
    at-properties:
    - Don't use 'Preferences' word for application name
    default applications:
    - Make the accelerators for the A11Y tools page unique
    - Replace mail and multimedia icon names with Tangoified versions
    - Use standard xdg autostart directory instead of GNOME one
    - Replace obsolete 'orca -m' command with new 'orca -e magnifier'
    display:
    - Code cleanup and fix a few leaks
    - fix string capitalization
    fontilus:
    - Drop "GNOME" from the menu item name as recommended...