gksudo executes command before asking for password

[simen]

Hello people,

On my roundabout path from hack to (presumably) hacker, I've pieced together some shell scripts to control my firewall. I suspect they are too ugly for words, suffice to say that they work.

My problem is with gksudo. I want to be prompted for a password to run /usr/local/sbin/openwall; the relevant parts of my sudoers file look like this:

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# Cmnd alias specification
Cmnd_Alias	CLOSE =  /usr/local/sbin/closewall
Cmnd_Alias	OPEN = /usr/local/sbin/openwall

# User privilege specification
root	ALL=(ALL) ALL
simen   ALL=NOPASSWD: CLOSE
simen	ALL= OPEN

If I do "sudo openwall" in a terminal, all is well. But if I do "gksudo openwall", my computer FIRST executes the shell script, THEN prompts me for my password, and if I verify myself, it runs the script one more time before exiting. For what it's worth, I'm running Sarge and obviously GNOME. What am I missing here?

Kind regards,
--Simen