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. -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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