Many thanks Anders - I can now finally use gksu again!
However, while I think I understand the technical reasons for the way
things are, from a more holistic perspective I disagree that this bug
should be marked invalid for the following reasons:
- It requires _more_ steps to run programs as another user compared with
running programs as root (this just seems wrong)
- I don't think people running GNOME should need to be concerned about the
details of X security ("GNOME is not UNIX" argument)
- gksu fails to run as documented with no discernible reason why (at the very
least, a note with the above solution should be added to man
pages/documentation)
I don't enter the other users password when running the program as that
user - gksu asks me for my own password (in the same way that it asks me
for my own password when running a program as root)
I'm aware of the fast user switcher, but gksu serves a different (and
often more convenient) purpose. One could argue the same for running
anything else as root.
-Darren
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gksuexec doesn't work in dapper !
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/47388
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