gksudo 16.10

[Tom H]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2016 at 9:28 AM, Ralf Mardorf <silver.bullet at zoho.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 05:38:27 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>> On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 22:12:31 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> Deprecated it may be, but I don't know how else easily to run
>>> something like gedit with sudo permissions.
>>
>> sudo HOME=/root gedit
>>
>> or
>>
>> sudo -i
>> gedit
>
> Btw. sudo is not the same on all distros.

It depends on a distro's "/etc/sudoers" although in Ubuntu's case the
sudo source is also patched to preserve $HOME.