Recommend that users launch Adept with kdesudo

[Andreas Braml]

When logged in as non-root user under non-KDE (e.g. GNOME, Fluxbox or in a Failsafe X session), running 'sudo adept_updater' or 'sudo adept_manager' sets the group/user id of .ICEauthority in said user's /home to 'root'. So the next graphical login fails.

The system is Hardy Heron on i386, last updated 2008-03-19, 12:00 UTC

[Andreas Braml (a-strich-b)]

The bug does not show when using gksudo/kdesudo instead of plain sudo

[Andreas Braml (a-strich-b)]

This bug still occurs on 8.04 Release with updates as of 2008-05-11

[kko (kko)]

Does running it with 'sudo -i adept_manager' prevent the problem?

[Andreas Braml (a-strich-b)]

No. It doesn't even work. I get:

/usr/bin/adept_manager: /usr/bin/adept_manager: cannot execute binary file

[kko (kko)]

Ah, sorry about that, my mistake, I should've checked before posting my comment.

I am not fully aware of all the reasons, but "the correct practice" is indeed to use the graphical sudoes (gksudo or kdesudo) to launch graphical programs. Hence, I don't know if this will be considered a bug, or whether this could be prevented by adept.

[Andreas Braml (a-strich-b)]

OK, I know about the gksudo/kdesudo recommendation. And I wouldn't have written this bug report if the consequences of using plain sudo instead were adept_* erroring out or something like that. But being prevented from graphical login altogether is more than just a minor annoyance. How many novice Kubuntu users that just want to try out Gnome (where this unexpected behaviour shows up, too) are expected to know that there even is a .ICEauthority (which doesn't even show up in the graphical file managers in their default configuration)?

[Andreas Braml (a-strich-b)]

I just read the release notes for Adept 3.0 alpha 5 on the blog of the application's developer:

[quote]
If you have sudo (Kubuntu-ers do, the rest can use kdesu or similar):
sudo adept
sudo adept installer
sudo adept updater
[/quote]

So much for [gk|kde]sudo... ;-)

[kko (kko)]

"expected to know that there even is a .ICEauthority"

I agree with you, this is a valid point.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

We should patch adept to recommend kdesudo.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Would actually make sense for this change to be made upstream, so I forwarded the bug report.

[Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)]

Here's a better one.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package adept - 3.0~beta2ubuntu5

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adept (3.0~beta2ubuntu5) intrepid; urgency=low

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * Use better icon

  [ Jonathan Thomas ]
  * Recommend kdesudo, Closes LP: #203331

 -- Jonathan Riddell <email address hidden> Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:07:13 +0100