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Bug 343136 - ask for superuser password when using sudo
ask for superuser password when using sudo
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: system-monitor
Classification: Core
Component: general
2.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: System-monitor maintainers
System-monitor maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-27 21:55 UTC by Sebastien Bacher
Modified: 2011-11-11 10:03 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.13/2.14


Description Sebastien Bacher 2006-05-27 21:55:27 UTC 
That bug has been described on https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-monitor/+bug/45704

"Ran gnome-system-monitor and selected the Edit -> Change Priority item after selecting a process. When I changed the priority to -4 and pressed OK, I was prompted for the root password.

Since there is no root password in my default install of Ubuntu, that clearly wasn't going to work out.
..."
Comment 1 Benoît Dejean 2006-05-28 09:00:19 UTC 
which backend do you have gksu backend ? gnomesudo ? can you reproduce if you run 'sudo -k' before lauching gsm ?
Comment 2 Dean Sas 2006-05-28 11:41:22 UTC 
I can reproduce by typing sudo -k before launch.

Typing my user (which is in the admin group) password in the root password prompt did let me change the priority though.
Comment 3 Benoît Dejean 2006-05-28 13:50:07 UTC 
screenshot of the password prompt ?
Comment 4 Sebastien Bacher 2006-06-04 13:25:18 UTC 
The password dialog seems to be the standard gksuui_dialog_new() one, might be a libgksuui feature request
Comment 5 Benoît Dejean 2006-07-09 20:24:07 UTC 
HEAD is using libgksu2.
Comment 6 Daniel Holbach 2006-08-02 11:18:26 UTC 
2.15.90 tells me "Permission denied" for changing the prio to -4.
Comment 7 Benoît Dejean 2006-10-13 21:16:39 UTC 
Any news ? Are you using gksu sudo-mode ?
Comment 8 Sebastien Bacher 2006-10-19 09:59:29 UTC 
seems to work fine now, marking as fixed