gksu does not repeat password prompt if wrong password

[Renato Golin]

gksu only asks once for the password and then gives up if a wrong password is given.
It should ask 3 times (and then possibly complain to the user in a dialog?)

See comment #4 how to reproduce.

=== Original report: ===

To the wishlist:

Open update-manager, check for packages to install and click on "install". It'll ask for your password, if you get it wrong it won't tell you. It just refreshes the package listing and show the update manager window again.

I'm running the latest Ubuntu with all updates applied, but it's an issue for a long time, really. It's not critical but it's a big of a nuisance, since I always do multiple things at the same time and I can easily forget to check the update window for hours or even days.

A simple dialog would be fine, but sudo insults (if enable) would be much better. ;)

cheers!

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport

gksu should repeat the prompt three times if there was a typo. What version of ubuntu do you run exactly?

[Renato Golin (rengolin)]

$ uname -a
Linux gargamel 2.6.27-13-generic #1 SMP Thu Feb 26 07:26:43 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=8.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=intrepid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 8.10"

All updates applied.

[Emmanuel Pacaud (emmanuel-pacaud)]

Same issue here, with Lucid, all updates applied:

Linux lappc-p087.in2p3.fr 2.6.32-23-generic #37-Ubuntu SMP Fri Jun 11 07:54:58 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux

DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=10.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=lucid
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 10.04 LTS"

[Simon Gerhards (simger-deactivatedaccount)]

Seems like a gksu bug. Starting gksu and entering a wrong password gives this without asking for a password for a second time:
$ gksu -d echo Hello
No ask_pass set, using default!
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-XYZq2S/.Xauthority
STARTUP_ID: gksu/echo 'Hello'/7881-0-simon-notebook_TIME5167444
cmd[0]: /usr/bin/sudo
cmd[1]: -H
cmd[2]: -S
cmd[3]: -p
cmd[4]: GNOME_SUDO_PASS
cmd[5]: -u
cmd[6]: root
cmd[7]: --
cmd[8]: echo
cmd[9]: Hello
buffer: -GNOME_SUDO_PASS-
brute force GNOME_SUDO_PASS ended...
Yeah, we're in...
sudo: 3 incorrect password attempts
 try again.
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-XYZq2S/.Xauthority
xauth_env: /var/run/gdm/auth-for-simon-koKGqm/database
dir: /tmp/libgksu-XYZq2S

Can someone with the problems in update-manager reproduce this? If yes, we should file a bug against gksu.

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

I can reproduce exactly Simon's behaviour.
Added gksu here and set update-manager to invalid.

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
Package: gksu 2.0.2-2ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=de_CH.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-23.37-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Tags: lucid
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-23-generic x86_64
UserGroups: adm admin cdrom dialout lpadmin plugdev sambashare vboxusers

[Janne Hyötylä (janne-hyotyla)]

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