gksudo just sleeps, exits without displaying anything and without error

[martin f krafft]

also sprach martin f krafft <madduck at madduck.net> [2008.12.20.1541 +0100]:
> I am experiencing a strange problem with gksudo on an 8.10
> installation. If I run something like 'gksudo synaptic' from
> a terminal, the command seems to sleep for 3-5 seconds and then
> returns with exit code 0. However, no password prompt was displayed,
> and synaptic did not get started.
[...]
>   buffer: -sudo: sorry, you must have a tty to run sudo-

This is related to the Defaults requiretty setting that puppet
pushed to the machine. Once I disable it, the problem goes away.

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