I'm running Lubuntu 11.04 x64, fresh install, and I have this issue.  I
note that my applications in the menu [that need privileges] have a
gksu, and changing them to gksudo makes them launch just fine.  It's
just when I launch apps with gksu that it happens.  Changing the
application menu entries to use gksudo is not really the fix, though,
for if I install a new app with privileges or if I reinstall something
like Synaptic, they'll be back to gksu.  I've ran $gksudo gksu-
properties , and it showed that su was being used, so changed to sudo
and rebooted, with no luck.  Is this a policy-kit issue?  I just mention
that because I note that when I run an app with gksudo it comes up with
a window asking for *my* passwd and gives a little plus-sign with a
polkit entry, but when running apps in my main menu (and those run with
gksu, as I said earlier), those come up with a slightly different auth
window that asks for the "administrative password", and asks if you want
to remember it for the session, or forever in the keyring.  As a side
note, I installed with the Ubuntu 11.04 x64 Alternate CD, changed the
mode to command-line only (forgot the wording), and installed a minimal
Ubuntu desktop, then after the install did a $sudo aptitude install
lubuntu-desktop , to get Lubuntu.

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  Sudo asks for root password instead of user password

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