Ubuntu
gksu package

too technical language and no user feedback in the (cached) password dialog

Bug #28716 reported by Sebastian Heinlein on 2006-01-16

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	gksu (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Medium	Unassigned

Bug Description

The password dialog should appear before launching the app.

Take this use case:
"User me gets notified about the launching of "malicious code" with root privileg. He only gets notified about this and can see how his hd gets formated."

Perhaps it would be better to go with the design of gnome-key-ring dialog and provide a "deny", "allow once", "allow always". The dialog could look like the attached mockup.

The text of the current information dialog about cached passwords is really long and full of technical terms. I think that these could be avoided.

Could the sudo password caching turned into an option? Otherwise there should be an information about the caching.

Regards,

Sebastian

Revision history for this message

Sebastian Heinlein (glatzor) wrote on 2006-01-16: mockup

mockup Edit (57.2 KiB, image/png)

a possible way of less technical dialogs

Revision history for this message

Duncan Lithgow (duncan-lithgow) wrote on 2006-02-11:

Let's say this is a feature request shall we?

In agree totally, I would rather type in the password each time personally - I should have an easy option to do that.

Duncan

Revision history for this message

Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote on 2006-02-15:

The dialog is removed in current dapper (with the latest gksu) so I think the bugreport can be closed for now. If it is ever re-added I think we should follow Sebastians suggestions.