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gksudo does not work with passphrase

Bug #29310 reported by janl
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Bug Description

I've set up encrypted $HOME with pam_mount. This works well. The problem starts when gksudo asks for my password to run network-admin. It never accepts my password.

The password is actually a passphrase. It contains spaces, but no non-ascii characters. It is about 30 characters. To me it looks like it does not accept new characters after the input pane is filled.

Nicolai

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can't reproduce the problem here. I tried a passphrase with 62 charackters and it works fine.

Cheers,
 Michael

Changed in gksu:
status: Unconfirmed → Needs Info
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janl (janl) wrote : Re: [Bug 29310] Re: gksudo does not work with passphrase

Michael Vogt wrote:
> Thanks for your bugreport.
>
> I can't reproduce the problem here. I tried a passphrase with 62 charackters and it works fine.

Ugh. Sorry for not updating. I have since determined that the account I
set up (I forget if I used adduser or useradd) did not have a entry in
sudoers. This pretty much spoils the party no matter what.

Nicolai

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Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis) wrote : Re: [Bug 29310] Re: [Bug 29310] Re: gksudo does not work with passphrase

Ok, thanks for notifying us :)

 status Rejected

Dennis Kaarsemaker (dennis-merged)
Changed in gksu:
status: Needs Info → Rejected
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