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gnome-applets package

Modem Monitor not taking sudo password

Bug #14288 reported by Zabil C.M
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Bug Description

The "Modem Monitor" applet does not authenticate using the sudo password.
Probably it might be still checking with the "root" password and not the user
password (user with sudo permissions)

Steps to replicate

1. Add the "Modem Monitor" applet to the panel

2. Right click on the "Modem Monitor" applet and select "properties"

3. It displays a message for authentication and throws a password dialog.

4. Enter the sudo users password in the text and click enter

5. It says that the password is invalid.

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Michael Vogt (mvo) wrote :

Thanks for your bugreport.

I can't reproduce this problem here. Both "activate" and "Properties" take my
user-password.

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Zabil C.M (zabilcm) wrote :

The latest update I did on my hoary on 22nd March solved this issue.
The problem no longer appears.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

*** Bug 14439 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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sfn (safin-poczta) wrote :

cpufreq-applet cannot authorize sudo user, occured in 9.04 ubuntu, ( 32bit )

cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=9.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=jaunty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 9.04"

apt-cache policy gnome-applets
gnome-applets:
  Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu4
  Candidate: 2.26.0-0ubuntu4

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sfn (safin-poczta) wrote :

forgot to add:
when want to select cpu frequency, it ask me for password, but all the time I've got error message that password is invalid. For sure password is correct and from sudo user I'm trying to change it.

Also, this doesn't occurs on 64bit OS.

Michael Vogt (mvo)
Changed in gnome-applets (Ubuntu):
assignee: Michael Vogt (mvo) → nobody
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