The call is eventually delegated to gksu. This is the behavior of gksu. "gksu gedit" shows the same behavior when typing an incorrect password.
It's not a bug in Mint. I'm marking it as affecting Ubuntu(gksu), it'll be up to the upstream developers to decide whether this is a feature request or a bug. ** Changed in: linuxmint Status: New => Invalid ** Also affects: gksu (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- mintbackup crashes if worng password entered https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/575347 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs