Another reason to prefer a real root over sudo

[Chris G]

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 10:45:36AM -0600, Jeff Henson wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:52 AM, Jeff Henson <jeff at jhenson.net> wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 9:10 AM, Pierre Frenkiel
> > <pierre.frenkiel at laposte.net> wrote:
> >> On Mon, 2 Feb 2009, Robert Parker wrote:
> >>> You can 'sudo su -'
> >>
> >>   then, X11 doesn't work
> >
> > You should be able to use 'su -p username'. I'm at work and can't test
> > it right now though.
> >
> 
> Was just able to test it and it doesn't work the way I thought.
> 
Exactly!  It's a right royal pain.

The only sane ways to run something like synaptic in this situation
are (as I see it):-

    Log out of X and log back in as the sudo privileged user.

    Have a root account (in which case synaptic asks for the root
    password rather than the user's password).

    Do the work on the command line in a terminal (but then it's not
    synaptic).

-- 
Chris Green