sudo vs. gksu

[Karl Larsen]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 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 
>
>
>   
    From what I have heard it appears that control files of the GUI 
application can take on root privledge from using sudo. I am going to 
run an experiment where I use nothing but sudo with gedit and pay 
attention to the control files. I use joe as an editor in a terminal and 
it has never had a problem when used in a root terminal.

Karl



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