gksudo problem (bug?)

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David Mandelberg Wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> TIA,
> David Mandelberg
> 
> P.S. I'm not sure if this belongs on -devel or -user, so I'm sending to
> both.
> 
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I have a similar problem, I want to use pam_krb5 authentication with
it.  It works fine with normail sudo.  But gksudo fails, unless I sudo
first.

The menu items never work this way.


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