Bug#892768: RM: gksu -- RoM; RoQA; unmaintained

[Michael Biebl]

Am 14.08.2018 um 14:28 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> Hello,
> 
> Jeremy Bicha, le lun. 12 mars 2018 15:00:49 -0400, a ecrit:
>> gksu has been deprecated for years. The intent of gksu is to allow
>> running apps with elevated privileges but the recommended way to do
>> that is for the app developer to use PolicyKit to request elevated
>> privileges for the specific actions that need done instead of for the
>> whole app to run as root.
> 
> Mmm, for the case of e.g. editing a file in /etc with pluma, is there a
> way to do it without gksu?

Not sure what pluma is, but GNOME via GIO/GVFS provides access via
admin:///. If you e.g. open admin:///etc/hostname in gedit, you get a
polkit prompt and after successful authentication, you can edit files in
/etc.




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