On 11/8/21 05:12, tempforever wrote:
[snip]> Lars Noodén via Dng wrote:
You could consider running sudoedit instead. That will allow you to
edit a file as root (or any other designated account) while still
running the editor itself under the unprivileged account. One should
not run graphical
Thanks for the (attempted) help.
su -c - root mousepad returned the same error (Mousepad-CRITICAL...
Failed to initialize xfconf: The connection is closed)
su -c - root xterm
and then mousepad (in that xterm) returned the same error again.
I noticed on my Beowulf system I get a similar "error"
tempforever said on Sun, 7 Nov 2021 14:19:54 -0500
>I'm logged on user "a" (with very few permissions), on the same system
>exists user "b" (in sudo group).
>When I run pkexec --user root mousepad (for example), it prompts for
>user "b" password, instead of root password.
>If I remove user "b"
On 11/7/21 21:19, tempforever wrote:
[snip]> Actually I'll probably switch to a text-based editor for this
particular
case, but in general, for GUI applications, how is this done now?
[snip]
You could consider running sudoedit instead. That will allow you to
edit a file as root (or any other
I'm logged on user "a" (with very few permissions), on the same system
exists user "b" (in sudo group).
When I run pkexec --user root mousepad (for example), it prompts for
user "b" password, instead of root password.
If I remove user "b" from sudo group, the above example will prompt for
root
