Ubuntu
jockey package

jockey-kde still uses kdesudo on startup

Bug #581379 reported by Scott Kitterman
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
jockey (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Unassigned
Lucid
Fix Released
Medium
Jonathan Thomas
Ubuntu ubuntu-10.04.1

Bug Description

When starting Jockey in KDE, the initial prompt for privilege escalation is generated from kdesudo, not via Policy Kit. Later, when Policy Kit takes over, the user gets asked for a password again. This is not very smooth and presents a worse user experience than Karmic.

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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Marking confirmed based on discussion with pitti at UDS and code inspection.

tags: added: regression-release
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04.1
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Lucid):
assignee: nobody → Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
importance: Undecided → Medium
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.04.1
status: New → In Progress
Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
milestone: ubuntu-10.04.1 → none
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Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman) wrote :
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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

accepted into lucid-proposed, please test

tags: added: verification-needed
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Andreas Wenning (andreas-wenning) wrote :

Confirmed; after updating to the version in lucid-proposed it no longer shows a kdesudo popup on start. I don't have any hardware in need of proprietary drivers so can't test that thoroughly if it works as expected, but it at least starts fine.

Scott Kitterman (kitterman)
tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package jockey - 0.5.8-0ubuntu8.1

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jockey (0.5.8-0ubuntu8.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Remove the X-KDE-SubstitueUID key from jockey-kde.desktop.in. It is no
    longer needed since Jockey now has PolicyKit support, and poses a less
    than desirable situation where the whole frontend is run as root.
    Fixes LP: #581379
 -- Jonathan Thomas <email address hidden> Sun, 16 May 2010 12:30:53 -0400

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: In Progress → Fix Released
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Scott Kitterman (kitterman) wrote :

Not an issue in Maverick

Changed in jockey (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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