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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/604180

Title:
  gksu and sudo broken in guest session

Status in “gksu” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: gksu

  sudo and gksudo don't work in guest sessions on Lucid. By "guest
  session" I mean in particular the temporary session created and
  disposed of on the fly by selecting "Guest session" from the session
  menu.

  First, SUDO
  Running sudo from a command prompt within a guest session produces the 
message:
  sudo: Unable to change to sudoers gid: Operation not permitted
  My understanding is that this is a result of SELinux configuration. This, 
then, could be understood as security-based design decision, rather than a bug. 
I am using the default SELinux configuration.

  Now, GKSUDO
  Running a program through gksudo (such as synaptic or most program on the 
System|Administration menu) results in a pause of a few seconds, while the 
system wait cursor spins, followed by nothing. No error message is returned, no 
visible program is run. I expect that I will be prompted for a password or 
notified that I don't have permission to execute this command, but that isn't 
what happens. This is definitely a bug, as the user should be given some kind 
of feedback on his action.

  This is probably not the right package to report this bug in. It seems
  to be more of an overall security configuration issue. Please provide
  suggestions if you think this bug should be sent elsewhere.
  Nevertheless, I filed it in this package because I think the most
  immediate way to fix this bug is to have gksu give a meaningful error
  message if it is unable to run sudo.

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