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[Chris Woollard <cwoollard@xxxxxxxxx>]

In this case we have decided that we will maintain the use of sudo. This section is talking about the use of sudo and not gksudo.

There is also a note on the right hand side of the page that implies
that the command is being run from a terminal window.

If we were demonstrating sudo from within the graphical environment
(e.g. The Alt+F2 run menu), it would be more appropriate to use gksudo
as the user would not be prompted to enter a password.

Thanks for taking the time to help out.

Chris

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** Changed in: ubuntu-manual
       Status: In Progress => Invalid

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Bug description:
Chapter 6, 'Introducing sudo'
Page 123

In the example of sudo a graphical application is used (gedit). As far as I know using sudo with graphical applications is dangerous and I was told to use gksudo (for further information: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo).

I think that a non-graphical application might be better as a example.


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