On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 21:42 +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
> If it looked ugly and boring, it was xterm :-) 

It was xterm. :)

> I don't know what's in gnome-admin-tools, 

The entries in Desktop->Administration that are experiencing the error
are:
Disks
Networking
Services
Shared Folders
Time and Date
Users and Groups

the others all work fine.

> The dialogue box telling you that your password is incorrect may
> actually be a false diagnosis, when in fact what's happened is that
> gksu (or the invoked command) has kicked an unexpected error, but when
> it gets presented to the user someone has assumed that it will be
> because of the most common case, an incorrect pasword.
> 
> When you run from the command line, you get the above "Authentication
> Rejected" message instead of the "incorrect password" box, is that
> right?

In a manner of speaking. I get authentication complaint first, than the
other.

--Slosh

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