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gksu package

Incorrect password does not give error

Bug #540732 reported by David Clayton on 2010-03-18

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #298217: no second attempt and no feedback when wrong password entered. Edit Remove

This bug affects 2 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gksu (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: update-manager

After pressing "Check" in the 10.04 Update Manager and entering an incorrect password, the program returns to the original screen without any error message.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Mar 18 18:28:53 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Alpha amd64 (20100308)
Package: update-manager 1:0.133.3
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_AU.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: update-manager
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

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David Clayton (dcstar) wrote on 2010-03-18:

Dependencies.txt Edit (4.9 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Lorenzo De Liso (blackz) wrote on 2010-03-18:

I can confirm this bug.

Regards,

Lorenzo D. (alias BlackZ).

Changed in update-manager (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Confirmed

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote on 2010-03-25:

Correcting package assignment

affects:

update-manager (Ubuntu) → gksu (Ubuntu)

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C de-Avillez (hggdh2) wrote on 2010-03-25:

example run (I received one prompt for the passphrase, and entered one obviously wrong; no other prompts):

$ gksu --debug -u root synaptic
No ask_pass set, using default!
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-ehjzvu/.Xauthority
STARTUP_ID: gksu/synaptic/11461-0-xango_TIME259325426
cmd[0]: /usr/bin/sudo
cmd[1]: -H
cmd[2]: -S
cmd[3]: -p
cmd[4]: GNOME_SUDO_PASS
cmd[5]: -u
cmd[6]: root
cmd[7]: --
cmd[8]: synaptic
buffer: -GNOME_SUDO_PASS-
brute force GNOME_SUDO_PASS ended...
Yeah, we're in...
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-ehjzvu/.Xauthority
xauth_env: /var/run/gdm/auth-for-cerdea-hTUVeN/database
dir: /tmp/libgksu-ehjzvu