gksu to regular users broken
Bug #246192 reported by
ceg
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #275304: run as different user fails (wrong ownership of .Xauthority and /tmp/libgksu-xxx).
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gksu (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: gksu
In (x)ubuntu 8.04 it ist not possible to run an application as a different regular user with gksu.
A simple test:
Inserting the following line into /etc/sudoers (with visudo)
user ALL=(otheruser) ALL
leads to:
user@hostname:~$ gksu -u otheruser firefox
(graphical password prompt)
Error: cannot open display: :0.0
user@hostname:~$
Inserting
user ALL=(otheruser)
leads to:
user@hostname:~$ gksu -u otheruser firefox
user@hostname:~$
(doesn't even get to the error message)
Changed in gksu (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
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I also hate that. The menu commands are useless for normal users!
Is Ubuntu "Linux for human beings"? When an account cannot have sudo rights (for anything),
the humanoid question is:
What is the root's password?
Or please select/write an admin account name and gave that account's password.
Currently we must gave a password for root and use ALT+F2 "gksu -w synaptic" for workaround.