What is the difference between sudo and gksudo?
Major program for any newbie in Linux, or particularly Fedora. The command to use the Super User.
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On the command line, you have to do some operations, for security reasons, as a root user (a.k.a. administrator). Then you do not need to log-out to accomplish such tasks. Just type "sudo" before the command and enter the root password.
This is for the terminal. While in the Graphical User Interface (GUI) applications, we need a tool called "gksudo", but this is currently not available in Fedora releases. Then we can use something called "beesu". So to install it, just type:
# yum install beesu
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sudo execute a command as another user (also root); gksudo is a fronted o gui of su or sudo, but it is now obsolete and replaced for polkit. If you have a program and need permit as root, then a simple configuration, for your program using polkit is the best solution.
Read more about polkit here
Path to make you polkit configuration here:
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/
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Asked: 2014-08-13 12:09:30 -0500
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Last updated: Aug 19 '14
