On Fri, 29 Jul 2011 18:49:07 +0200 PaulTT <[email protected]> said:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 4:11 PM, Jeff Hoogland <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Paul,
> >
> > When I run it from terminal such as "empower gedit" I enter my password and
> > press enter and then nothing happens. However the terminal has a password
> > prompt open then. Once I enter my password in the terminal and press enter
> > gedit launches.
> >
> > So it appears to not be passing the password from the E entry window to the
> > command I am trying to run. Ideas why that might be?
> 
> if you launch
> empower gedit
> ffrom the terminal, is there any error message????
> 
> do you ave libelm installed?

from a vague memory long ago there erer issues with sudo itself that sudo
needed patching/fixing for to allow empower to work. it relies on sudo having
the -S option (read passwd from stdin).


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