Wednesday, 11 February 2015

[ubuntu] gksudo & password topic






I have a launcher with gksudo -u someuser firefox
Why does this launcher require root password instead of the password of the currently logged-in user.
The password window has the following message:
"Enter YOUR password to run the application firefox as someuser"

NOTE:
On my system, I enforce root password for all sudo requests.
In /etc/sudoers, I have "Defaults rootpw"
Is there any relation?






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