sudo vs. gksu

Markus Schönhaber ubuntu-users at list-post.mks-mail.de
Sat Apr 5 09:13:50 UTC 2008


Nils Kassube wrote:

> With sudo some applications access / modify the user's config files as 
> root. From then on they are owned by root and the user can no longer 
> access / modify them. That leads to unusual error messages which only 
> long time users can trace back to the permission problem. With gksu (or 
> kdesu if you use kde) this problem is avoided.

Thanks for the explanation, Nils, Mario.

Regards
  mks




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