[OT] sudo, why not su?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Wed Aug 10 13:50:39 UTC 2005


MrKnisely wrote:

>> However, nobody talked yet about the interest of having additionnally
>> a Superuser Terminal in the Applications/System menu.

I didn't realize I had one - kubuntu install doesn't create one.

> The root terminal is just the result of running sudo... well, sort of.
> The command is:
> 
> gksudo /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator

Not sure what interesting piece of Gnometry installed that for me but it has
to be one of the dependencies of synaptic...  It'll be gone soon, since I
still haven't found a reason to keep synaptic around :-)
-- 
derek





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