bugGKSu - Bugs: bug #17139, libpam-mount (and possibly others)...

 
 

bug #17139: libpam-mount (and possibly others) break gksu

Submitted by:  Johannes Berg <johill>
Submitted on:  Tue 18 Jul 2006 08:02:08 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: NoneStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed

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Thu 07 Sep 2006 06:18:43 PM UTC, comment #2:

I just commited a fix for this on ligksu trunk (rev 717). Will be in the next release.

Gustavo Noronha Silva <kov>
Project Administrator
Sun 23 Jul 2006 09:48:41 PM UTC, comment #1:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=1524325&group_id=41452&atid=430593
for the pam_mount side of the "bug".

Well, just as it says: gksu does not expect the debug output from pam_mount (which is printed to stderr).

Jan Engelhardt <hirogen2>
Tue 18 Jul 2006 08:02:08 AM UTC, original submission:

$ gksu /bin/true

[dialog pops up, I enter root password]

[error dialog pops up]


Failed to run /bin/true as user root.

Failed to communicate with gksu-run-helper.

Received:
pmvarrun: parsed count value 1

While expecting:
gksu: waiting


for reference:

$ su -c /bin/true
Password:
pmvarrun: parsed count value 1
pmvarrun: parsed count value 2

I don't know why libpam_mount insists on printing that (yes, it's annoying and probably not necessary), but I think gksu should be prepared to handle such things and skip input lines it doesn't understand until it finds the "gksu: waiting" line. It shouldn't wait forever for it to appear though, otherwise a problem with the gksu helper could cause it all to hang.

Johannes Berg <johill>

 

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