Modemlights "Properties" option asks for root password

[Phil Housley]

Selecting "Properties" from the modemlights context menu asks for a root
password before doing whatever it might want to do.

Should there really be something on an applet's menu that wants to be root?

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

what version of gnome-applets are you using ?

should be fixed in this upload:

gnome-applets (2.9.4.1-0ubuntu3) hoary; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/11_modemapplet-sudo.patch:
    - patch from Michael Vogt <email address hidden> to use sudo in the modem applet
      (Hoary: #5592).

[lexual (lexhider)]

(In reply to comment #1)
> what version of gnome-applets are you using ?
>
> should be fixed in this upload:
>
> gnome-applets (2.9.4.1-0ubuntu3) hoary; urgency=low

I'm not the bug reporter, but I'm running the above version of gnome-applets and
selecting "properties" asks for the root password, and as I don't have one the
properties dialogue will not open.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

in fact the gnome-applet issue is fixed, the current one is due to #2210.
Closing it as a duplicate of #2210.

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8935.