[mintInstall] No arguments for gksudo
Bug #538766 reported by
Rovanion
This bug affects 2 people
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux Mint |
Confirmed
|
Low
|
Clement Lefebvre | ||
Bug Description
Launching mintInstall prompts a gksudo overlay. An overlay that reads: Please enter your password.
This is bad in many ways. Especially when done by a core tool of Linux Mint. The gksudo overlay should provide information about what you are allowing to run with root privileges. If a core tool gives no information at all why it needs root permissions the user will not expect explanations when an alien application from the internet asks for permissions.
So mintInstall or it's mintMenu launcher must pass arguments to gksudo so that it displays the apropriate information.
Revision history for this message
| Rovanion (rovanion-luckey) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in linuxmint: | |
| importance: | Undecided → Low |
| status: | New → Confirmed |
| assignee: | nobody → Clement Lefebvre (clementlefebvre) |
| milestone: | none → isadora-rc1 |
| Changed in linuxmint: | |
| milestone: | isadora-rc1 → isadora-stable |
| Changed in linuxmint: | |
| milestone: | isadora-stable → julia-rc1 |
| Changed in linuxmint: | |
| milestone: | julia-rc1 → julia-stable |
| Changed in linuxmint: | |
| milestone: | julia-stable → k...a-rc1 |
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The same goes for mintUpdate, gksudo shows no further information than that you are launching mintUpdate.