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[Andrew Woodhead <andrew.woodhead666@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you mean using gksudo or sudo in command line??

Remember sudo is ONLY for command line apps and gksudo is for X based apps.
-Andy (actionParsnip)


On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Yorvyk <yorvik.ubunto@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> I noticed this before, but forgot about it. When you open any app
> requireing sudo privilages you only get one go at the password.  If you get
> it wrong you have to restart the app.  This is true in both Lucid and
> Maverick.  In X/Ubuntu you get several (three?) attempts, useful for clumsy
> typists.
>
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> Steve Cook (Yorvyk)
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