Ubuntu
gksu package

  1. Bug #783129
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 783129

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Khurshid Alam (khurshid-alam) wrote :

I can confirm, This bug is still present in ubuntu 12.04. As Nicolas mentioned when using gksu in terminal it does respect the timeout, but when gksudo is called via gui, it doesn't. The only option is to explicitly set "timestamp_timeout" in /etc/sudoers.