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

[Samuel Thibault]

Michael Biebl, le mar. 14 août 2018 14:34:05 +0200, a ecrit:
> Am 14.08.2018 um 14:28 schrieb Samuel Thibault:
> > 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.

Ah, ok, thanks!

Samuel