file-roller erroneously demands password after drag & drop

[will_cool]

Binary package hint: file-roller

With the attached archive, file-roller will let you view file2, but when you drag & drop it into a nautilus window,
it'll ask for a password, which it should not.

may be related to #213005

[Dave Walker (dogatemycomputer)]

Could you just confirm for me that foo.zip attached is not password protected? I cannot extract individual files or decompress the entire archive without being prompted for a password. If the archive is password protected then prompting for a password when attempting to extract an individual file is the intended behavior and not a bug.

[Dave Walker (dogatemycomputer)]

I wanted to amend my previous post. I should note that decompressing the archive, decompressing an individual file or attempting to view the contents of an individual file inside the archive all prompts for a password. The archive appears to be password protected.

[will_cool (c94wjpn)]

well I don't know what software you're using but it's probably not file-roller 2.28.1 on a gnome system.
You can open the archive and see the file listing without a password.

[Dave Walker (dogatemycomputer)]

I apologize for not understanding the problem you were having. You are correct and I apologize.

Here are the steps necessary to recreate the problem:

1 - Launch file-roller within Ubuntu 9.10
2 - Click OPEN
3 - Select the attached archive.
4 - file-roller should display a list of files contained inside the archive. file1 is password protected. file2 is not password protected.
5 - attempt to drag/drop file2 to the Desktop. You will be prompted for a password which should not happen.
6 - click OK and the password prompt will not go away. Enter any random string into the dialog box and click OK will cause the file to be successfully decompressed.

Thank you for reporting this bug and any supporting documentation. Since this bug has enough information provided for a developer to begin work, I'm going to mark it as confirmed and let them handle it from here. Thanks for taking the time to make Ubuntu better!

[will_cool (c94wjpn)]

you have explained it better than I did. I'm sorry I wasn't clear enough.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at:
 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605244

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package file-roller - 2.29.4-0ubuntu1

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file-roller (2.29.4-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream version:
    Bugs fixed:
    - [arj] Fixed the way to get the filename from the command output
    - Do not show the password dialog if not needed. check only the files
      to extract to see if the password prompt is needed.(lp: #494793)
    New or updated application translations
  * debian/patches/70_autotools.patch:
    - new version update
 -- Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Jan 2010 23:23:17 +0100