Re: sudo vs. gksu

On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 15:28 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 14:11 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
Can you explain how this problem is avoided with gksu, or gksudo? So far
as I can see using one of these causes the application to run with UID
of 0, i.e., root. The app has no knowledge of how it was invoked, so any
files is creates will be owned by root.

Your explanation applies to running any app, not just graphical ones.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo

That page says that "sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list" is a good idea.
It isn't, and for the same reason graphical apps shouldn't be run
through sudo -- nano will create/edit extra files in your home
directory. In fact, there's a command called "sudoedit" which solves the
problem.


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