Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Matus UHLAR -
fantomas<uhlar@fantomas.sk> wrote:
> On 13.06.09 09:32, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports
>> 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.' How do I fix this? Is
>> it some idiotic "security feature"? (I get really steamed when fear
>> overrides function!)
>
> why do you want to sun gnome-terminal under sudo, instead of running su/sudo
> in gnome terminal?
Doing the former allows me to open new tabs as root, doing the latter
(with 'su') requires that I provide my root password every time; using
'sudo' requires that I provide 'sudo command' every time. It's just a
lot less convenient, but still doable, which is why the security
excuse is BS. It's yet another example of sacrificing function to
fear.
Patrick
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