gksudo dialog is confusing
Bug #7964 reported by
Matt Zimmerman
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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gksu (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
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Jeff Waugh |
Bug Description
"Please enter your password to run <foo> as user root"
This has confused several Sounders already, since it sounds like it is asking
for the root password. There is no need to mention root at all here, it should
just ask for the user's password
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For reference, the wording on the sudo dialog on Mac OS X is "<application name>
requires that you type your password", and it displays two text boxes, the first
with your username pre-filled in it, and the second for the password, with the
password one focused. Having the username in the first blank (even if you can't
change it at that point) would also help indicate that it's your own password,
not root.