Contents
Can a sudo command run an application as root?
User 1 has the same rights as user 2. Unless user 1 issues a command prefixed with sudo and / or provides their password to allow applications to run with root privelages. The only difference is that user 2 cannot run apps as root. Hope that helps explain it a bit for you.
Which is the short form of Sudo in Ubuntu?
In Ubuntu, they are equivalent. (You can also replace the first gksu with gksudo, but that would be extremely counterintuitive and confusing.) -w is the short form of –su-mode. -S is the short form of –sudo-mode but neither has to be used because sudo-mode is the default.
Is there a Qt frontend for plain Sudo?
In Lubuntu, there’s a tool called lxqt-sudo. It’s in the official repositories. It works! lxqt-sudo/groovy, now 0.15.0-0ubuntu1 amd64, is a Graphical Qt frontend for plain sudo. I would typically use the following logic in my scripts so that they will always request privilege escalation themselves using the appropriate method:
Which is the default frontend for Sudo in Ubuntu?
The default behavior of gksu in Ubuntu is to act as a frontend for sudo, not for su. That is to say that, by default, gksu and gksudo behave exactly the same. See the manpage.
How to run a GUI program as a different user?
On Windows I simply hit shift and rightclick on it and am prompted for user and password. I guess there is a similarly simple way to do that in Debian as well. (Apart from workarounds like creating scripts such as sudo xyz .) Thanks in advance!
How can I run an application with a GUI as admin?
If you wish, you can replace the second gksu with gksudo to make it less confusing. In Ubuntu, they are equivalent. (You can also replace the first gksu with gksudo, but that would be extremely counterintuitive and confusing.) -w is the short form of –su-mode.
How to run a GUI in a shell?
You can use the command xhost + to allow other users permission to display GUI’s to user1’s desktop. NOTE: When running xhost + you’ll want to run this while still in a shell that belongs to user1. When you become user2 you may need to set the environment variable $DISPLAY.
How to ask the user’s password in Sudo?
If the -A (askpass) option is specified, a (possibly graphical) helper program is executed to read the user’s password and output the password to the standard output. If the SUDO_ASKPASS environment variable is set, it specifies the path to the helper program.