sudo vs. gksu

Sat Apr 5 13:28:47 UTC 2008

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