Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Karl Auer]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 08:01 -0500, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> Why not open a terminal and sudo to yourself then sudo synaptic?

Because the account that's active can't sudo.

However "su - me" should still work, followed by sudo synaptic (or
gksudo synaptic).

Might have to set the DISPLAY variable first: "export DISPLAY=:0.0"

Haven't tried this. There might be xauth issues too.

Regards, K.

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