** Changed in: gksu
Status: Unknown => Fix Released
** Changed in: gksu
Importance: Unknown => High
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/256692
Title:
remove pointer grab in authentication dialog
Status in The "GKSu" Gnome Frontend for "su":
Fix Released
Status in “gksu” package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Binary package hint: gksu
There are users that cannot use a regular keyboard and have to rely on
an onscreen keyboard to do their typing. (for example TabletPC users,
disabled users that can only use a pointer,...)
These users are not able to input their password into the gksu
authentication dialog, because the gksu dialog grabs the pointer.
To resolve the same issue in policykit-gnome, they decided to simply not
perform any pointer grabs on its authentication dialog; see comment 12 and 13
of the following bugthread:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=531609
(remove the pointer grabs and provide a gconf key for the keyboard grabs
where there seems to be more security issues)
There is a gconf key to disable grabbing for the gksu dialog. But by
using an approach like that used in policykit-gnome, the gksu dialog
would be accessible by the users indicated above out of the box; they
would not need anymore the knowledge of the gconf key to disable
grabbing from the gksy dialog.
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