newbie user/root dycotomy

[Russell Cook]

Hi Ari
glad nautilus is working for you. I understand that some people may feel 
using a sudo/su nautilus can be a security risk, but I don't see it any 
worse than typing su in a terminal and then nautilus :-)

I hadn't heard of gksu, will have to look at that one.

Linux is more complicated than some other OS, just a matter of 
experience I guess. I've just installed the latest Hoary on a "spare" 
machine and can't get the X resolution to go higher then 640 x 480. Once 
I got 1280 x 1024, but I can't find anything obvious in xorg.conf. I'll 
try lower color depth  (15 not 24) and see if that  helps! What fun X is :-)

Kind Regards Russ
http://www.windsorcycles.com.au




Ari Torhamo wrote:

>la, 2005-01-22 kello 16:38 +1100, Russell Cook kirjoitti:
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>>Hi Ari,
>>I do this now for those tasks that I need a file manager for and need
>>root acces. I have a panel icon for a sudo Nautilus. Properties are
>>Command "gksudo nautilus"
>>
>>It works for me. I use a different icon so I dont' mix it up with my
>>user mode Nautilus and have had no trouble with it (other than
>>Nautilus' frequent crashes in any mode!) A nice tool, but not as
>>stable as I'd like.
>>
>>Kind Regards Russ
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>Hi Russ,
>
>Now I have a gksudo nautilus -icon too. I always tought that using sudo
>Nautilus is somehow more dangerous than sudoing in terminal. People
>talked about it with such a warning tone. BTW, do you have a special
>icon for gksudo nautilus. It would be nice to have one - maybe the
>normal Nautilus icon with somethin added to it - a scull? :-)
>
>I wanted to understand gksudo better and search for info in all possible
>places, but couldn't find anything really helpfull until I somewere saw
>the word gksu and realized that gksu - not gksudo - is the actual thing
>and it works with su and sudo. I understand now that Linux is a huge
>jungle and the only way to learn to live there is to start from the root
>level... what? What!
>
>Thanks for your help :-)
>
>Ari
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