On Sun, 13 May 2018 14:43:55 -0500 Richard Owlett <rowl...@cloud85.net> wrote:
> > Is "sudo" and cousins an appropriate tool? > > I would have said so. In order to make changes to a computer, both GParted and Synaptic (and aptitude, apt-get etc.) *require* root privileges. There's no way around that. The point about users running without root privileges is explicitly to make them unable to make the kind of changes to a computer that GParted and Synaptic do. Both GParted and Synaptic are inherently graphical programs, requiring the use of X, therefore their use in anger requires a mixture of root and X. Anyone who doesn't like that idea is completely free to use parted and aptitude. If your micro-installation contains them, gksu and gksudo are graphical equivalents of su and sudo. I start Synaptic from a menu entry, which uses gksudo. It requires my password, because like the vast majority of computers, all mine are usually connected to a network with Internet access. If you want to use your computers in a different way from almost everybody else, you must expect to do a certain amount of your own trailblazing. -- Joe
