[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 716595] Re: consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time
OK, this is definitively gksu breakage when searchign for the password prompt. Let's fix it at the proper place. ** Changed in: apport (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid ** Package changed: xorg (Ubuntu) => gksu (Ubuntu) ** Changed in: gksu (Ubuntu) Assignee: (unassigned) => Martin Pitt (pitti) ** Summary changed: - consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time + gksu ask for password each time with stdout redirection -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/716595 Title: gksu ask for password each time with stdout redirection ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 716595] Re: consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time
(Note that "sudo whoami > /tmp/o" just works fine). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/716595 Title: consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 716595] Re: consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time
That seems to be a rather interesting gksu bug or misbehaviour: "gksu whoami" does cache the password through sudo, but "gksu whoami > /tmp/o" doesn't. So the output redirection breaks this somehow. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/716595 Title: consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
[Ubuntu-x-swat] [Bug 716595] Re: consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time
Indeed it works when running without $DISPLAY, i. e. apport calls sudo directly. But it doesn't seem to cache credentials when using gksu, as this creates new PTYs (to run sudo in) every time. We could provide a new API root_commands_output to accept a keyname -> [command list] and slurp in all command outputs in one go. The xorg hook could then use that. ** Summary changed: - Apport hook prompts 3 times for password + consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time ** Also affects: apport (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu-X, which is subscribed to xorg in ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/716595 Title: consecutive root_command_output() calls ask for password each time ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat Post to : ubuntu-x-swat@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-x-swat More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
