gksu is a graphical frontend to su, written for the GNOME desktop environment. It is deprecated in favor of polkit.
Questions tagged [gksu]
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How to make gksudo or gksu sessions last longer in Linux
Every time I want to open a GUI program that needs root permissions, I have to put my password. For example, I open synaptic and put my password then close it and a second later decide to reopen it it asks for the password again. Ubuntu 9.04 wasn't…
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gksu replacement
In the old days of CentOS 5 i had an application that run as another user.
I created a .desktop file which run a command that looked like this:
gksu -u anotheruser someapplication
When the user clicked the icon a popup asked for the password of…
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Why is gksu asking me for root password and not my password?
On one of my systems, I'm running Gentoo Linux and I've installed x11-libs/gksu-2.0.2-r1. I've disabled the root account using sudo passwd -dl root and I want to be able to run GUI apps which need root privileges using sudo.
I've set gksu to use…
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Is there a graphical sudo (kdesudo, gksudo, su-to-root, ...) tool that works passwordless?
Apparently gksudo is not obeying /etc/sudoers, neither does kdesu.
Therefore asking the other way around...
Is there any su-to-root, gksudo, kdesudo, etc. alike tool, that supports starting gui applications as root or different user with an option…
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How to take a screenshot of gksudo's window?
I've been configured a keyboard shortcuts and it is working with others.
it doesn't work only with gksudo's window and special system menus.
(my laptop is running with Linux Mint 18.2)
below command is just example for watching gksudo's window.
$…
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Disabling "Remember password" for GKSU command
I am using GKSU for switching user in my Linux terminal and I want to disable "Remember password" option in that Pop-up menu due to security reasons. I am not sure how to achieve that.
Mentioned below is the only trial i tried in the system, which…
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How do I run a supervisor command in a Eclipse PyDev project without being asked for a password?
So I've got the following code that should check whether an npm package is installed:
def is_installed(name, as_global=True):
# Returns whether NPM package is installed.
s = shell(_get_npm_command("ls -p --depth 0", as_global))
match =…
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What does -S mean in gksu -- -S mount …?
So, I have a script that uses -S mount nfs -o proto=tcp,port=2049 … etc. to mount a location from another Linux computer. What does -S mean? It seems to work just fine with or without it (it doesn't work if I do such as gksu -- -S mount … etc. to…
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GUI Authentication Requiring a Different User Auth
A few weeks ago a colleague signed into my Fedora 22 workstation. He too is a group admin. Ever since then whenever I attempt to install or unlock the "Authentication Required" modal requires his password and not mine.
How can I fix this? It's…
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gksudo not honoring configuration in /etc/sudoers
Some time ago I posted a question which was related to whether it is possible to preserve environment variables when sudoing to a different user. As it turned out, this is indeed possible.
When invoking gksudo today to execute a GUI application as…
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gksu -S ask for password only once even when set to three times in sudo configuration
I have a problem with gksu command. It always ask for password only once even when I set Defaults passwd_tries=3 in /etc/sudoers file.
Command:
$ gksu -S --debug ls
No ask_pass set, using default!
xauth: /tmp/libgksu-h36DCX/.Xauthority
STARTUP_ID:…
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How do I install beesu on CentOS 8?
I have installed CentOS 8 and there is no beesu, or gksu package. I have also tried to install some Fedora rpm packages of beesu, but without success. Previously I used CentOS 7 and I had a desktop shortcut for Root terminal like this:
[Desktop…
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gksu not working after upgrade to debian buster
There are a few icons on my (xfce4) desktop that use gksu, for example a root terminal. They used to work fine in debian stretch. Now, gksu asks for the root password (once, it manages to save it for the session), but then fails to start the…
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Notepadqq doesn't ask to retry as root, gksu doesn't work
I want to open config files in Notepadqq. When I try to do this normally, I get an error dialog with message "Permission denied" and options Ignore, Abort and Retry.
Supposedly if gksu is detected Notepadqq will offer the option to retry as root,…
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gksudo is different from sudo
Background:
I'm running linux mint on a VM env where i have a mounted folder that only root can access and i want my Deluge client to download my torrents to that folder.
If i go on terminal and execute: sudo deluge
it asks my password and runs as…
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