[Bug 11326] "Become an Administrator" calls gksudo with unrecognised option

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Thu Jun 16 01:02:31 UTC 2005


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jamie at anchor.net.au changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |UNCONFIRMED
         Resolution|FIXED                       |




------- Additional Comments From jamie at anchor.net.au  2005-06-16 02:02 UTC -------
(In reply to comment #1)
> This has already been fixed in Breezy.

Great.  How about a bugfix for the version people are actually using.

> I confirm this bug for Hoary, but it is by far not a big deal.

Nonsense.

> The first created
> user is in group "lpadmin" and thus does not need to explicitly become
> administrator in the first place, and for other users it is unlikely that they
> have administrator rights (i. e. can do sudo), but are not in the lpadmin group.

That's all news to me.  I was working under the obviously false assumption that
one only needed to be granted sudo access to be able to run commands through gksudo.

> Thanks for the report anyway!

You're most welcome.  Next time I want to be patronised in a bug report I'll
know where to look.

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