Running apps as root?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 10:47:25AM +0200, Davide Pesenti wrote:
> Il giorno mar, 19-10-2004 alle 18:20 +0200, Rudi von Staden ha scritto:
> > I know how to get sudo working for me, but how would I go about, say,
> > using text editor to change my sources.list? Is there some way to run
> > it as root? I'm comfortable with vi, but I'm thinking of people who
> > have a catatonic response to the command line.
> 
> do you mean something like "run as.." ?
> it would be a nice feature, a shortcut for sudo su $user -c $app ...

  Applications -> System Tools -> Run as different user

... is the general idea, although it uses gksu, not gksudo, so won't do
what you want by default.

Cheers,

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Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]