Package: gksu Version: 1.2.5-3 Severity: important gksudo cannot be used with stable's sudo as of DSA 946-1[1] as the DISPLAY environment variable (and perhaps some related to X authority, etc. - not sure how that works) are no longer inherited from the calling environment.
There is a related bug[2] filed against sudo, specifically complaining about the documentation angle. I found the solution in a blog posting[3]: add the following via visudo: Defaults env_reset, env_keep="XAUTHORITY DISPLAY" Finally, [4] looks like where the problem was introduced. I suppose gksudo needs to be more aware of the environment variables it needs, check to see if sudo will propagate them, and inform the user if it won't (or postinst/debconf "fix" the sudoers file). What do you think? Do you have another solution in mind? [1] <http://www.us.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-946> [2] <http://bugs.debian.org/349129> [3] <http://snafu.priv.at/interests/debian/sudo.html> [4] <http://bugs.debian.org/342948> -- System Information: Debian Release: 3.1 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.11-jmtd Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages gksu depends on: ii libatk1.0-0 1.8.0-4 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libgksu1.2-0 1.2.6-2 library providing su and sudo func ii libgksuui1.0-0 1.0.4-3 a graphical fronted to su library ii libglib2.0-0 2.6.4-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.6.4-3.1 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libpango1.0-0 1.8.1-1 Layout and rendering of internatio ii sudo 1.6.8p7-1.3 Provide limited super user privile -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
