Apport asks for password to often

Bug #998990 reported by Hendrik Schrieber
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Apport
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apport (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

When submitting a bug report using apport using Alt+F2 and entering »ubuntu-bug package«, Apport asks for the password right after running the command two times in a row. Later on, it asks whether to include debug logs and therefore asks again for the password two times in a row. When genereting the bug report it again asks two times and at the end it asks again whether to include debug logs (the exact same question as before) and I have to enter the password two times again.

This seems to be a little bit too much!

Shouldn't it be enough to ask for the password once when starting Apport and saving it in some kind of cache until Apport is quit?

Also it's kind of wired that Apport always asks to times in a row. And yes, I am sure that I entered the correct password!

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: apport 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
ApportLog:

ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 14 07:42:32 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Hendrik Schrieber (hennekn) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Apport asks for password to often
+ Apport asks for password too often
summary: - Apport asks for password too often
+ Apport asks for password to often
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This release of Ubuntu is no longer receiving maintenance updates. If this is still an issue on a maintained version of Ubuntu please let us know.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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Marcus Tomlinson (marcustomlinson) wrote :

This issue has sat incomplete for more than 60 days now. I'm going to close it as invalid. Please feel free re-open if this is still an issue for you. Thank you.

Changed in apport (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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