On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:47:33 -0500 Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]> said:

fyi - ubuntu natty here - empower works just fine. :) it supports -S

> Thanks for the tip! I'll check that as well next week when I have time to
> build packages.
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> On Fri Jul 29 2011 07:32:00 PM CDT, Carsten Haitzler <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:49:07 +0200 PaulTT <[email protected]> said:
> > 
> > > On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Jeff Hoogland
> > > <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Paul,
> > > > 
> > > > When I run it from terminal such as "empower gedit" I enter my
> > > > password and press enter and then nothing happens. However the
> > > > terminal has a password prompt open then. Once I enter my password
> > > > in the terminal and press enter gedit launches.
> > > > 
> > > > So it appears to not be passing the password from the E entry window
> > > > to the command I am trying to run. Ideas why that might be?
> > > 
> > > if you launch
> > > empower gedit
> > > ffrom the terminal, is there any error message????
> > > 
> > > do you ave libelm installed?
> > 
> > from a vague memory long ago there erer issues with sudo itself that sudo
> > needed patching/fixing for to allow empower to work. it relies on sudo
> > having the -S option (read passwd from stdin).
> > 
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