Nigel W wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > Raf Czlonka wrote: > >> Sthu hadn't mentioned even once that he tries to run those as root. > > > > Uhm... What? But he did! You must have missed that he said he > > wanted to run them from gksu. If you are not familiar with it that is > > the entire purpose of gksu. From the gksu man page: > > > > gksu is a frontend to su and gksudo is a frontend to sudo. Their pri- > > mary purpose is to run graphical commands that need root without the > > need to run an X terminal emulator and using su directly. > > > > Therefore, yes, he did say he wanted to run those as root. :-) :-) > > That is a huge assumption. Both su and sudo are used to switch > users. Yes, the primary user that gets switched to is root, but > that doesn't mean it is the only user that someone would switch to > using su or sudo. > > I assume gksu and gksudo both have the same ability as su and sudo. > According the man page that I found for gksu and gksudo they both > support same options (-u) but all of my linux systems are headless so > I can't actually test it. Okay. You have caught me! I had jumped to the conclusion that gksu would be used to run the chromium browser as root. I had not considered that it would be used to run it directly as another user. Bob
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