Gksudo used instead of sudo in ubuntu-docs

Sebastian Heinlein - glatzor liste at pimpzkru.de
Sun May 28 16:01:39 UTC 2006


Am Sonntag, den 28.05.2006, 19:00 +0300 schrieb Ari Torhamo:
> Hi,
> 
> When tranlating the Desktop Guide (ubuntu-docs in Rosetta), I found a
> sentence that advices to use Gksudo to run Gedit with administrative
> privileges. I thought to ask if this is correct, because I thought sudo
> is what one should use in this situation. The item in question is number
> 188 in ubuntu-docs.

Hello Ari,

you can use gksudo, gksu or sudo. gksu and gksudo are graphical
frontends to sudo. gksu is by default in sudo mode.

Regards,

Sebastian





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