This only happens if you already started an administrative application
(from System -> Administration) before and already entered your password
in gksudo. This is the very same behaviour as on the console, sudo
doesn't ask for the password for 5 minutes after you successfully
authenticated once.
Since the authentication ticket applies to a particular terminal, you
might have different tickets in gnome terminals than on the desktop.
** Changed in: meta-gnome2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed => Rejected
** Visibility changed to: Public
** This bug is no longer flagged as a security issue
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Critical security problem in ALT+F2 (run program) and sudo!
https://launchpad.net/bugs/52652
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