Odd Gnome behavior
Hi All,
I have run across an oddity in Gnome's behavior when running admin tools
from the gui.
If I run any of the tools found in the Desktop -> Administration menu,
explicitly from that menu, Gnome asks me for the root password. I enter
the root password and it tells me I entered an invalid password.
However, if I run any of those same admin tools from the Applications ->
Debian -> Apps -> System menu Gnome accepts the root password and they
run just fine.
Does anyone know what is going on with this? I do the vast majority of
my work from the bash prompt, but on occasion I will want to just look
at a setting and will choose to do that from the gui tools. Although
this problem is easily worked around I'm stumped as to why this is
happening.
BTW, this behavior started when I changed the behavior of sudo from the
Debian default of not requiring a password to requiring one. I've since
reversed that to see if that is responsible for the change in behavior
in the gui, but it has made no difference whatsoever.
Any clues as to where to look would be appreciated.
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