Bug 97257

Summary:	Wrong error message when not in wheel group
Product:	[Applications] kdesu	Reporter:	Gilles Schintgen <gschintgen>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdesu bugs tracker <kdesu-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Gentoo Packages
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Gilles Schintgen 2005-01-17 17:52:12 UTC

Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Gentoo Packages
OS:                Linux

When the user running kdesu has insufficient privileges to run su (e.g. not in wheel group) kdesu fails with the incorrect error message "Incorrect password; please try again." Note that, su gives an imprecise but correct error: "Permission denied."
IMO it would be better to change the error message to something like this:
"Permission denied. Maybe the password was wrong."

Comment 1 Dik Takken 2005-06-04 20:52:28 UTC

I ran into the same incorrect message. If kdesu can see the difference between an incorrect password and lack of user privileges, a message like:

"You do not have rights to run applications as another user. Please contact your system administrator"

would be very nice.

Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-11-06 15:40:51 UTC

SVN commit 1193616 by ossi:

fix another potentially misleading error message

BUG: 97257


 M  +6 -4      sudlg.cpp  


WebSVN link: http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=1193616