Bug 13364

Summary:	gksu doesn't execute commands like it used to
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	nikos papadopoulos <nikos769>
Component:	RPM Packages	Assignee:	Atilla ÖNTAŞ <tarakbumba>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Triaged
Version:	4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Source RPM:	gksu-polkit-0.0.3-0.git20131130.9.mga4.src.rpm	CVE:
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Description nikos papadopoulos 2014-05-12 14:12:41 CEST

Description of problem:
The following command used to work with the "old" gksu ...

   gksu 'xterm -sb -geometry 122x10 -fg white -bg darkred'

The ""new" gksu asks for a password, and then it shows this message:

"Failed to execute child process "xterm -sb -geometry 122x10 -fg white -bg darkred" (No such file or directory)"






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Manuel Hiebel 2014-08-13 10:45:54 CEST

Keywords: (none) => Triaged
Assignee: bugsquad => tarakbumba

Comment 1 Atilla ÖNTAŞ 2014-09-12 17:02:31 CEST

Gksu-polkit does not accept arguments for the command. This is an upstream decision. You can always create a wrapper script that includes your commands and run it with gksu-polkit. Also you can use beesu for this purpose. Sorry...

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => WONTFIX