Comment 34 for bug 298217

@Martin:

I have the same problem as Twisted Lincoln. My installation of Lucid was a clean install.

Current version of libgksu2-0 is 2.0.13~pre1-1ubuntu4.1

Output from gksu -d whoami is:

No ask_pass set, using default!
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-raKlv9/.Xauthority
STARTUP_ID: gksu/whoami/3503-0-ja-desktop_TIME21500095
cmd[0]: /usr/bin/sudo
cmd[1]: -H
cmd[2]: -S
cmd[3]: -p
cmd[4]: GNOME_SUDO_PASS
cmd[5]: -u
cmd[6]: root
cmd[7]: --
cmd[8]: whoami
buffer: -GNOME_SUDO_PASS-
brute force GNOME_SUDO_PASS ended...
Yeah, we're in...
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-raKlv9/.Xauthority
xauth_env: /var/run/gdm/auth-for-ja-naBCR8/database
dir: /tmp/libgksu-raKlv9