Well, I saw the notification in the panel that some updates were available. I noticed one of them was for gnome-panel (and other packages). I thought "why not?" and installed them. I then tried to reproduce the issue.
Having a sudo before the command in a launcher is no longer locking up the X session! Instead, it opens the tool with root access. I was surprised. However, it never prompted me for a password. Is this because I had already specified it when I ran the Update Manager tool? I tried logging out and back in to see if that would "reset" it, but I still was not prompted by the launcher. However, attempting to execute the same command from the terminal did prompt me to enter my password. I was able to execute "sudo gnome-terminal" from a launcher on my panel, it opened a terminal with root@<machine name> and I indeed had root access (tried to write some files in other users' home directories). I am completely confused now. Is this the expected behavior? Should the user not be prompted for a password when running a command prefixed by sudo from a launcher in a panel or is this working by chance because I performed a system update right before the test? -- adding "sudo" before command in launcher in gnome panel freezes X session https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/253504 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
