On Sat, Nov 26, 2011 at 16:25, Bob Proulx <b...@proulx.com> wrote: > Raf Czlonka wrote: >> Sthu hadn't mentioned even once that he tries to run those as root. > > Uhm... What? But he did! You must have missed that he said he > wanted to run them from gksu. If you are not familiar with it that is > the entire purpose of gksu. From the gksu man page: > > gksu is a frontend to su and gksudo is a frontend to sudo. Their pri- > mary purpose is to run graphical commands that need root without the > need to run an X terminal emulator and using su directly. > > Therefore, yes, he did say he wanted to run those as root. :-) :-)
That is a huge assumption. Both su and sudo are used to switch users. Yes, the primary user that gets switched to is root, but that doesn't mean it is the only user that someone would switch to using su or sudo. I assume gksu and gksudo both have the same ability as su and sudo. According the man page that I found for gksu and gksudo they both support same options (-u) but all of my linux systems are headless so I can't actually test it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAFe+FOxoLmkY+_pLUhqGvDkFwX1QgaOxPqg=_gdofvlmybt...@mail.gmail.com
