Shell confusion
Kevin Kofler
kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sat Mar 14 15:50:29 UTC 2009
Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> You should not run GUI apps under a root shell. Do:
>
> sudo gedit
>
> or better yet:
>
> sudoedit /etc/the_config.ext
May I suggest:
gedit sftp://root@localhost/etc/foo.conf
as an alternative? :-)
Of course this only works if you have sshd running, but it avoids running
the whole GUI app as root.
That works with all editors using gio/gvfs or the old gnome-vfs (e.g. gedit)
or KIO (KWrite, Kate etc.).
Kevin Kofler
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