firestarter bad password

Michael Vogt michael.vogt at canonical.com
Wed Dec 29 19:02:54 UTC 2004


On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 05:36:48PM +1100, David wrote:
> 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?

As others already pointed out, the problem is that firestarter calls
gksu in the menu file. I uploaded a fixed version that calls gksudo
instead. 

bye,
 Michael
 

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