How to use sudo in a bash script?

[Vincent Trouilliez]

On Thu, 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?
> 
> Chris Dunn

I think what you need in this case is not sudo, but gksudo. 


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Vince