[Solved]gksudo problem

kgas · 2010-08-13 18:19:32

after the current -Syu gksudo is not working in my openbox set up for shutdown/suspend/hibernate. when run in terminal it says
sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo
but already in wheel group and sudoers file updated one modified accordingly.
Does any one have the same issue?

Last edited by kgas (2010-08-13 18:53:24)

sweetthdevil · 2010-08-13 18:20:44

Hi all,

after today's update the gksudo doesn't work; or the password seems to be different to the user one.

Any advice on how to resolve the issue?

loafer · 2010-08-13 18:31:48

Can you paste sudoers please.

xenofungus · 2010-08-13 18:32:21

I had to update the .pacnew file to reallow the wheel group.

Since you cant use sudo visudo, become root with su first then visudo

Inxsible · 2010-08-13 18:35:09

Merged the 2 threads on the same issue to keep all the discussion together

kgas · 2010-08-13 18:42:58

a workaround is to create command alias that solved this issue for now.

rider · 2010-08-13 18:46:25

1. "su", must be root
2. "cd /etc"
3. "cp visudo visudo.old" just for security
4. "cp visudo.pacnew visudo", use new file
5. Edit file with "visudo"
6. For me, I uncommented :
"%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" to allow members of group wheel to execute any command
"%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL" to allow members of group sudo to execute any command
7. And save ":wq" under vim

anonymous_user · 2010-08-13 20:49:37

"%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" would allow users in group wheel to run commands sans password, wouldn't it?

And for "%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL", would I have to create the sudo group?

loafer · 2010-08-13 21:10:13

anonymous_user wrote:

"%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" would allow users in group wheel to run commands sans password, wouldn't it?
And for "%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL", would I have to create the sudo group?

Yes.

For me using gnome gksudo is broken. Sudo is fine.

Luckily I don't use gksudo that often as I don't run GUI apps with privs and I only tested it after reading this thread.

I think a bug report is needed.

Last edited by loafer (2010-08-13 21:10:43)

anonymous_user · 2010-08-13 21:55:09

Its already been reported:

http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?do= … k_id=19614

rider · 2010-08-13 22:18:33

anonymous_user wrote:

"%wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL" would allow users in group wheel to run commands sans password, wouldn't it?

Aha, needed for "sudo pacman -Syu", other wise I a was dead/blocked after upgrade. And yes I am speaking about problem with "sudo".

anonymous_user wrote:

And for "%sudo ALL=(ALL) ALL", would I have to create the sudo group?

Correct, I was forced to created it - but not sure that is realy needed.

I don't use "gksudo" -> happy "awesome" user.

Last edited by rider (2010-08-13 22:20:05)

kgas · 2010-08-14 06:03:25

As I mentioned creating command alias solves the problem but something is wired.
Cmnd_Alias SHUTDOWN_CMDS=/sbin/halt,/sbin/reboot,/usr/sbin/pm-suspend,/usr/sbin/pm-hibernate
<user> ALL=(ALL) ALL
<user> ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:SHUTDOWN_CMDS <--- Note: Without password
with this still gksudo is required to get the work done. no other modification to sudoers file.
creating a sudo group and uncomment %sudo did not solve the issue.
This is for the records.

sweetthdevil · 2010-08-14 12:31:03

So just to clear it, this is a bug (gksudo not working) and should be fix?

B_Lizzard · 2010-08-14 20:46:20

Same issue here. gksudo doesn't work, normal sudo works fine. I replaced the sudoers with the sudoers.pacnew file and edited it with visudo. Probably a gksu bug.

naguz · 2010-08-20 20:43:00

I had the same problem.
@rider: I assume you mean sudoers, not visudo?

I replaced the old sudoers file with the .pacnew one, enabled the wheel group, and everything is good to go.

rider · 2010-08-20 20:57:10

@nagus : actually both of them.

Visudo Manual : visudo edits the sudoers file in a safe fashion, analogous to vipw(8). visudo locks the sudoers file against multiple simultaneous edits, provides basic ...

sweetthdevil · 2010-08-26 10:32:16

Hi all,

I have replaced the old file by the new file, edited it to allow wheel; made sure my users were part of wheel 'Group'.

Now when trying to run a gksudo command, the window pop up to ask for my password but the answer is "sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo"

It is my user password, I made sure I wasn't typing it wrong or with Caplock on...

Any idea on how to resolve the issue?

Last edited by sweetthdevil (2010-08-26 10:59:58)

loafer · 2010-08-26 11:03:56

sweetthdevil wrote:

Hi all,
I have replaced the old file by the new file, edited it to allow wheel; made sure my users were part of wheel 'Group'.
Now when trying to run a gksudo command, the window pop up to ask for my password but the answer is "sudo: sorry, a password is required to run sudo"
It is my user password, I made sure I wasn't typing it wrong or with Caplock on...
Any idea on how to resolve the issue?

You could try using gksu instead.

sweetthdevil · 2010-08-26 11:06:16

loafer wrote:

You could try using gksu instead.

Yes, but the issue is I do not want other user to have the root password; and I have script using gksudo for them to do couples of task.

thanks for your reply

irishjava · 2010-08-27 13:26:54

I had the same problem and solved it very simply with the following:

sudo pacman -R libgksu -c
sudo pacman -S gksu

irishjava · 2010-08-27 14:10:44

irishjava wrote:

I had the same problem and solved it very simply with the following:
sudo pacman -R libgksu -c
sudo pacman -S gksu

Sorry, this did NOT in fact fix the problem.

irishjava · 2010-08-27 14:17:02

I also don't know why this thread is solved. if you check out the bug report, it is clear that the problem is not in fact solved. A new copy of gksu package will need to be released, either that or users will have to downgrade.

Inxsible · 2010-08-27 14:40:35

irishjava, instead of multiposting, please use the Edit functionality. It is there for a reason.

irishjava · 2010-08-27 15:30:36

pardon me.

kgas · 2010-08-27 15:38:53

irishjava, don't worry. I use gksduo only for shutdown/reboot/suspend actions (see my post #12) in openbox set up.Even there are alternatives for that. Since my issues ends there I marked it solved. Some others created sudo group and got their issues solved. shortly I will dump the gksudo too.

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