On 6/12/06, der.hans <PLUGd@lufthans.com> 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.
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