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Re: [athena10] sudo
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Jan 22 16:11:43 2009
Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:10:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Sam Hartman <hartmans@mit.edu>,
Robert Basch <rbasch@mit.edu>, Quentin Smith <quentin@mit.edu>,
Mitchell E Berger <mitchb@mit.edu>, Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>,
athena10@mit.edu
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On Thu, 22 Jan 2009, Jonathan Reed wrote:
> I agree with Evan, if I saw a sudo prompt, I would enter my password, and=
=20
> would probably sit there wondering why it's failing.
In modern sudo, the prompt is clear about which password it=E2=80=99s askin=
g for:
[sudo] password for andersk:
[sudo] password for root:
The gksu/gksudo prompt is less clear. For most administrative utilities,=
=20
gksu has been phased out in favor of PolicyKit (which does provide a clear=
=20
prompt), but this is still a concern for synaptic.
By the way, the PolicyKit configuration, /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf, is=
=20
totally independent of sudo and should also be considered in this=20
discussion.
Anders
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