can't launch Ethereal as root

[Magnus Therning]

On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:16:51AM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
>On Sat, 16 Jul 2005, iqbal aroussi wrote:
>> I just installer Ethereal from Synaptic, I have two ways to launch it. 
>> when I try normal user it's ok. but when I try to do it as root it asks 
>> me the passwd, I type it but I get a msg box that say it's wrong. it 
>> cannot be wrong because that's the passwd I use all the time I'm sure of it.
>
>This is a bug and the ubuntu/ethereal package needs teaching to use 'sudo'
>(user-password) instead of 'su'.  Could you file a bug please?
>
>For the moment, run a 'Terminal' and type:
>
>  sudo ethereal
>
>then enter your password as you would do for normal system administration.

The bug is already filed, and fixed in Breezy!

You could modify the desktop entry and replace gksu with gksudo then
ethereal-root will work as expected.

/M

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