Workaround from #8 solved the issue for me in ubuntu 10.10. But I don't know if this causes any unwanted side effects.
BTW it seems really strange to me that this issue exists since more than four years now! It's impossible to use SWAT out of the box on ubuntu unless you searched the web. -- SWAT expects to authenticate as root https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/5608 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs