Re: Sudo instead of SU
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:56:13PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 06:49 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 12:42:48PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
> > > I guess you want to change the behaviour of gksu? Do,
> > >
> > > gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/gksu/sudo-mode true
> > >
> > > Or the same action with gconf-editor.
> >
> > This has never worked too well for me, just a note. Last time I tried
> > it a lot of applications didn't want to work. Do it at your own risk.
>
> You do need to configure sudo first of course. I have been running with
> gksu in sudo mode for quite a long time, and haven't had any problems.
I have sudo configured (I always use it in preference to su), but like
I said last time I tried to use only sudo it didn't want to work. Some
of the programs just wouldn't start, and complained that I need to be
root to use them.
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