Gksudo used instead of sudo in ubuntu-docs

[Karl Goetz]

Robin Sonefors wrote:
> According to the wiki, you shouldn't run graphical applications with
> sudo, or else bad things will happen to you. 
> 
> Unfortunately, it doesn't really go into any details about why or how,
> which makes everyone sound like your typical conservative: "No, don't do
> drugs OR ELSE!". While the topic is up, and we're in the mailing list we
> are, it might not be inappropriate to ask: Why?

one thing is people launching k3b as root. it chown s the users .Xauth
to root, and user cant log in any more.
I'm sure threes others :)
kk

> 
> sön 2006-05-28 klockan 19:00 +0300 skrev 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.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Ari
>>
>>


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