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Re: GKSudo + Kerb5, not showing password dialog


From: Gustavo Noronha Silva
Subject: Re: GKSudo + Kerb5, not showing password dialog
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:52:35 -0200

Em Seg, 2006-01-16 às 18:38 +0100, Bastian Pflieger escreveu:
> Hi

Hello,

> I am not sure if this is the right list to ask, but I don't know where 
> else to ask.

You're probably on the right side =)

> I recently upgraded my network to use kerberos 5. During that process I 
> replaced the pam_unix auth modul with pam_krb5. But since that, when I 
> execute the gksudo the gksudo process hangs (gksudo + 2 sudo childs). It 
> shows no enter password dialog.  All other auth apps are working (login, 
> gdm, plain sudo etc). Is this a known problem or is there anything 
> special to do?

Could you please send the result of running this?:

sudo -pBLAH some_comand_here

It seems like pam_krb5 overrides the sudo prompt, even if the user
requests a different one; gksu is not smart enough to handle that.

See ya,

-- 
address@hidden: Gustavo Noronha <http://people.debian.org/~kov>
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