On 6/12/06, der.hans wrote: > > Am 10. Jun, 2006 schwätzte Dazed_75 so: > > > When you issue something like gksudo "gedit foofile" in a terminal in > gnome, > > the terminal shows an error message (see below) but the commans works > > anyway. Can anyone explain for me in English what is actually > happening? > > While I have no problem with the result, it seems like there should be a > > failure and it makes me curious. > > > > (gedit:5638): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: > > Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols > > specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. > > Not sure. It's a warning, but it seems to be a warning saying, "Hey, this > isn't going to work." > > Can you turn up verbosity on gtksudo? > > ciao, > > der.hans > Interestingly, gksudo does not seem to have a verbosity option like -v. It DOES have --debug so I tried that and got: larry@ldesk:~$ gksudo --debug "gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst" xauth: /tmp/libgksu1.2-1yI5Y8/.Xauthority cmd[0]: /usr/bin/sudo cmd[1]: -H cmd[2]: -S cmd[3]: -p cmd[4]: GNOME_SUDO_PASS cmd[5]: -u cmd[6]: root cmd[7]: -- cmd[8]: gedit cmd[9]: /boot/grub/menu.lst buffer: -GNOME_SUDO_PASS- Yeah, we're in... (gedit:10011): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed. xauth: /tmp/libgksu1.2-1yI5Y8/.Xauthority xauth_env: /home/larry/.Xauthority dir: /tmp/libgksu1.2-1yI5Y8 Yes, I agree, the original message, still output, would seem to indicate failure even though listed as a warning. The additional debug info clearly says it DID work. Curioser and curioser. The only other thing I found, and I don't see how it would relate to authentication, is that the root user environment don't not have a DISPLAY variable. -- "The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them." Patrick Henry quote