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  1. Bug #716595
  2. Comment #5

Comment 5 for bug 716595

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time

That seems to be a rather interesting gksu bug or misbehaviour: "gksu whoami" does cache the password through sudo, but "gksu whoami > /tmp/o" doesn't. So the output redirection breaks this somehow.