How to use sudo in a bash script?

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On do, 2005-10-06 at 10:15 -0400, Chris Dunn wrote:
> For instance I want to include :
> 
> sudo synaptic 
> 
> in a script to put on a button in the task bar.
> 
> I had thought that this would run and bring up a box to allow me to
> enter a password to run the sudo command, but it simply fails to run.
> 
> What am I missing?

gk

If you want it to run graphically, you need gksudo instead of sudo.
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Dennis K.
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