Invocation of applications which require root permitions

[Jury Levykin]

Tim Frost:

>Don't use 'su -' as that does a full root login.
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>In particular, X authentication settings are lost.
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>Either run
>	su root -c synaptic
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$ su root -c synaptic
!!! success !!! synaptic is RUNNING

>or
>	sudo synaptic
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$ sudo synaptic
$
Nothing occurs

>as they will pass the X DISPLAY and XAUTH settings to the root process.
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>(Or run synaptic from the menus, which will use gksudo in place of
>su/sudo, and will provide the required environment)
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It is my first mail message!

>HTH 
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>Tim
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