with gksu 2.0.2-6ubuntu2 fprintd 0.4.1-5-g73eda -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gksu in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86843
Title: modifying PAM configuration could break gksu Status in The "GKSu" Gnome Frontend for "su": Unknown Status in “gksu” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Binary package hint: gksu If you modify PAM configuration to act differently, gksu could become unusable. For example, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ThinkFinger that modify PAM to take care of a fingerprint reader. (in /etc/pam.d/auth-common) auth sufficient pam_thinkfinger.so auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok_secure With this configuration, Login in console, GDM and su will work perfectly and ask you either for your password or your fingerprint. Unfortunatly, gksu will become "invisible". In fact, the sentence "enter your password or swipe your finger" will appear in the console from which you are launching gksu. As, most of the time, you are not launching gksu from a console but from an icon, you will see nothing and your application will not start. Anyway, it is still working because if you know it and swipe your finger, your application will eventually appear. So gksu is still listenning. It is just "invisible". To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gksu/+bug/86843/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
