Lock Screen Server 12.10

[Tom H]

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Joep L. Blom <jlblom at neuroweave.nl> wrote:
> On 05/02/13 11:07, Oliver Grawert wrote:
>>
>> running your desktop as root is calling for trouble, the desktop apps
>> are neither designed nor tested in that context and are likely to not
>> function in the expected manner ...
>>
>> ... the simple answer is, don't log in as root under X, use pkexec (or
>> the obsolete gksu) to execute apps you need to run as root from a
>> normally logged in user account instead.
>
> I agree of course with your remark about trying to br god: bas idea!.
> However, since when is gksu ( and even su?) obsolete?
> I've never used pkexec and why is that an improvement?
> For the record: I seldom use gksu but always use su -.

Oliver didn't say that "su" is obsolete, only that "gksu" is obsolete.

I didn't know that "gksu" is obsolete...

The difference between gksu/gksudo (they're the same by default, at
least on Ubuntu) and pkexec is that pkexec's permissions are more
granular because they use polkit's rules.