gksu ans gksudo doesn't work if sudo prompt differs from "Password: "

[Istvan]

Hi,

If the prompt sudo uses is not the usual "Password: " gksu and gksudo simply stop not prompt for password then execute the desired command.

In our system we changed the Password promt to something like "Enter Domain Password: " and this causes the above issue.

As soon I change back the promt gksu and gksudo work again.

Br,
/István

$ cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=12.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=precise
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS"
$ dpkg -s libgksu
libgksu2-0 libgksu2-dev libgksu-polkit0 libgksu-polkit-dev
eistatt@elx9lz6gs1-xz:~$ dpkg -s libgksu2-0
Package: libgksu2-0
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Installed-Size: 272
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Architecture: amd64
Source: libgksu
Version: 2.0.13~pre1-5ubuntu2
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.2.4), libgconf2-4 (>= 2.31.1), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0), libgnome-keyring0 (>= 2.20.3), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtop2-7 (>= 2.23.2), libstartup-notification0 (>= 0.4), libx11-6, gconf2 (>= 2.28.1-2), xauth | xbase-clients
Recommends: sudo
Description: library providing su and sudo functionality
 This library comes from the gksu program. It provides a simple
 API to use su and sudo in programs that need to execute tasks
 as other user. It provides X authentication facilities for running
 programs in an X session.
Homepage: http://www.nongnu.org/gksu
Original-Maintainer: Gustavo Noronha Silva <email address hidden>

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.