gksudo dialog is confusing

[Matt Zimmerman]

"Please enter your password to run <foo> as user root"

This has confused several Sounders already, since it sounds like it is asking
for the root password. There is no need to mention root at all here, it should
just ask for the user's password

[David D Miller (justdave)]

For reference, the wording on the sudo dialog on Mac OS X is "<application name>
requires that you type your password", and it displays two text boxes, the first
with your username pre-filled in it, and the second for the password, with the
password one focused. Having the username in the first blank (even if you can't
change it at that point) would also help indicate that it's your own password,
not root.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Jeff, can you fix this soon? It's becoming a FAQ, and one that we should be
able to easily eliminate

[Jeff Waugh (jdub)]

fixed in 1.2.0-2ubuntu2

[Daniel Borgmann (spark-mailinglists)]

Sorry to nitpick, but shouldn't the title also be changed? "Changing user..."
doesn't seem right now. Maybe something general like "Authentification".

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

"authentication" is technical nonsense to the average user, while "changing
user" is something that is at least vaguely meaningful to them

[Phill Ramsden (engcon50)]

my sudoers file is set to make sudo use the root password(*), a check for the rootpw tag before changing the prompt might be overkill, but would be more aesthetic, imo.

(*) I do this so that any remote attacker getting in with a users' password still can't get root access, although afaik I am the only user with sudo use and my password is decidedly secure... but it makes me feel better :)