kdesu says it's prompting for root password when it is in fact prompting for user password

Bug #13674 reported by Tim Hull
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
kdebase (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Jonathan Riddell

Bug Description

In kdesu on KDE 3.4, I've noticed that it now works w/no root account - entering
my user password works.
However, the prompt still refers to the "root password". This should be changed.

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

The approach we took with gksudo was simply to ask for 'your password'; this is
far less confusing than any technical terminology about user vs. root passwords,
and we should use the same approach for Kubuntu.

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Kristian Alvestad (kristianalvestad) wrote :

also, when I try to open administration mode in kcontrol, I just get thrown back to the top of the menu when entering the
correct password, leaving editing of this module only to the root account:(

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Jonathan Riddell (jr) wrote :

Fixed in recent upload 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu16. It now asks for "your password". Unfortunatly the
string won't be translated but I think this is preferable to it asking for the wrong thing.

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