I hit the same bug... in fact kdesu does not accept the sudoer password anymore... but if you have set up a password for the root user, this password is accepted. So the sudo/kdesu patch is broken, it worked till three or four days ago.
-- kdesu doesnt accept password! but sudo does. https://launchpad.net/bugs/72409 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
