some menu entries changes

[Dennis Kaarsemaker]

On di, 2005-09-06 at 20:24 +0100, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
> Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> 
> >I strongly disagree with removing the root terminal, please restore this
> >this!
> >  
> Hi Dennis
> 
> We'd like to be consistent about the way people get to root, and sudo is
> how we do it by default. That lets all the docs converge on sudo. There
> may be some inconsistencies for Breezy, but we will iron them all out
> for Breezy+1. it is easy enough to put the root terminal on the panel
> for people who use it a lot.

There is however a very good reason to keep it: new users don't know how
to run sudo correctly to get a temporary root shell. I've seen all kinds
of things:

sudo bash
sudo xterm
sudo -s
sudo gnome-terminal

The only correct way to correctly create a proper temporary root shell
is sudo -i (which resets $HOME and $USER, sudo -s -H has a similar
effect). gksudo resets these variables by default, so the current 'Root
Terminal' menu entry creates a proper root shell where (especially new)
users will not.
-- 
Dennis K.
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