pop-up dialogue for sudo password?

[Sheemon Lists]

I did notice the absence of xmessage in 20.04.
I guess it is part of the improvements which caused me to go to 18.

Just port xmessage [or one of its many descendants].  I bet just copying
the executable will do nicely.

Because I am such a terrific guy, it is attached.
To install:  Extract, gunzip, ldd, install.
The first two are obvious,
The third will tell you what libraries are missing.
The fourth needs the sudo prefix :-)

There may be a Debian package to do all that.  I did not check.

Enjoy


On Mon, Jul 13, 2020 at 9:47 AM Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> I have a simple script that runs rsync over ssh to do a backup. I run
> this script as me, from cron. It literally just runs rsync.
>
> In 16.04, a password dialogue would pop up when the job ran, asking me
> for the passphrase to the ssh key. I don't know what did that - it just
> happened, and it never occurred to me to ask :-)
>
> Now, in 20.04, that dialogue doesn't happen and my backup just fails. I
> can still run it manually, so it's no big deal.
>
> Does anyone know what that useful thing may have been in 16.04? Or
> whether there is a similar thing for 20.04?
>
> Regards, K.
>
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