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[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 02:08 -0400, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> > > For example editing a system file I usually use sudo vi but I tell my
> > > users to use gedit in "run as different user", they seem to understand
> > > that better.  
> > 
> > This seems like a potentially valid use case, though my general feeling is
> > that tools which open a GUI to prompt for a command line to run are not
> > significantly better than opening a terminal and running the command.
> > 
> > $ sudo gedit
> > $ gksudo gedit
> >   
> I just ran into this with a user today, and I was wondering if we
> should re-enable this one.

FWIW: the Desktop Guide deals with this point, and contains information
about how to add a script to nautilus to enable the functionality where
you can right click and open a file with administrative privileges (i.e.
with a text editor, in the case of text files).

Matt
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