firestarter bad password

David david at kenpro.com.au
Tue Dec 28 12:36:47 UTC 2004


On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:29:45AM +0100, Bo Rosen wrote:
> Den Tue, 28 Dec 2004 17:36:48 +1100 skrev David:
> 
> I'm not sure, but I can guess. Check that the menu command starts with
> gksudo which asks for your password, not the root password.
> 
> Cheers,
> 	Bo

Problem solved... 

The menu command was:
gksu /usr/sbin/firestarter

I changed it to:
gksudo /usr/sbin/firestarter

and now it works fine.

thanks.



> 
> > I've just installed firestarter. When I try to start it from the menu it 
> > asks for the password, but then tells me that the password is wrong.
> > 
> > I can start firestarter quite successfully by typing /usr/sbin/firestarter 
> > in a root shell (using the same password!) and it works fine. 
> > 
> > Can anyone suggest why this might be so?
> > 
> > thanks... David.
> 
> 
> 
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