gksudo problem (bug?)

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:56:09PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote:

> Gksudo doesn't work on my system when it needs to ask for a password (if I do
> "sudo echo; gksudo foobar" it works). I think this is caused by the options
> lecture=always and lecture_file=/etc/issue which make sudo output /etc/issue
> before asking for a password.
> 
> I'm not familliar with how gksudo works, but this shouldn't be too hard to fix.

Yes, you need to disable those options.  They are disabled by default in
Ubuntu for this and other reasons.

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 - mdz