Ubuntu
gnome-terminal package

Gnome terminal does not authenticate 'su' or 'sudo' using correct password. Konsole as root does.

Bug #150581 reported by Random
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Terminal will accept basic commands (top, ps -A), but will fail at anything requiring password. Konsole seems to work fine, root login works with same password. Intermittent and sporadic.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Oct 8 09:54:02 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-terminal
Package: gnome-terminal 2.18.0-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcCmdline: gnome-terminal
ProcCwd: /home/bill
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-terminal
Uname: Linux Random-Studio 2.6.20-16-lowlatency #2 SMP PREEMPT Sun Sep 23 19:54:02 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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Random (wc139) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be a bug report as such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise your question in the support tracker. http://launchpad.net/support

Changed in gnome-terminal:
status: New → Invalid
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Random (wc139) wrote : Re: [Bug 150581] Re: Gnome terminal does not authenticate 'su' or 'sudo' using correct password. Konsole as root does.

Thanks for the quick reply. Sorry about the errant
report, wasn't sure how to proceed or where to post
it.

--- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:

> Thanks for your comments. This does not appear to be
> a bug report as
> such. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing,
> but it would make
> more sense to raise your question in the support
> tracker.
> http://launchpad.net/support
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>
> --
> Gnome terminal does not authenticate 'su' or 'sudo'
> using correct password. Konsole as root does.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/150581
> You received this bug notification because you are a
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> of the bug.
>

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