gksu does not accept sudo password on the Nexus7

[Ara Pulido]

Some applications use "gksu" to gain root access when needed.

Right now, gksu is not accepting the default root password in the Nexus 7

Steps to reproduce:

1) Open a terminal
2) Type "gksu"
3) A dialog opens asking you what application you want to open and with which user
4) Select "gedit" as the application and "root" as the user
5) A dialog to type sudo password appears
6) Type the default sudo password

Expected behaviour:
Gedit opens as "root" user

Actual behaviour:
Wrong password error happens

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

gksu is unusable without a keyboard for me, did you manage to touch type into the password box?

[Chris Wayne (cwayne)]

I'm not able to reproduce this. Using both 'gksu gedit' and following your steps resulted in gedit opening for me.

@Matt

It worked for me.

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

For my issue, I found an upstream:
#421660 gksu's modal password prompt prevents OnBoard's virtual keyboard input, causing accessibility issues

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

I switched to using vnc so I don't have the issue with onboard. For me, gksu -w fails (su mode), but gksu -S works (sudo mode).

This matches with running su by itself, which also doesn't work

[Matt Fischer (mfisch)]

If I set a password for the root user by doing sudo passwd root, then gksu works fine.

[Chris Wayne (cwayne)]

So mine was defaulting to running gksu in sudo mode, rather than su mode, which is why mine worked. It does not work if I force su mode, although I think this is expected, as root has no password.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

unassiging the team from the desktop team, we are not working on it