ethereal (run as root) should use gksu instead of gksudo

Bug #40987 reported by Gary Coady
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ethereal (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
MOTU

Bug Description

As gksu is now set up in 'run in sudo' mode by default, using gksu instead of gksudo makes ethereal work like other apps which look for superuser access, and allows use of the root password if one has been set.

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sam tygier (samtygier) wrote :

confirmed in dapper

Changed in ethereal:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
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Loic Pefferkorn (loic) wrote :

Confirmed, .desktop file contains gtksudo:
TryExec=gksudo
Exec=gksudo /usr/bin/ethereal

Changed in ethereal:
assignee: nobody → motu
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Sebastian Dröge (slomo) wrote :

this should be fixed with 0.99.0-1ubuntu1

Changed in ethereal:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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