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Page request: gksudo #13443

Open 3xploiton3 opened 3 months ago

3xploiton3 commented 3 months ago

Command description

gksu is a frontend to su and gksudo is a frontend to sudo. Their primary purpose is to run graphical commands that need root without the need to run an X terminal emulator and using su directly.

Documentation

https://linux.die.net/man/1/gksudo

Platform

Desktop

VCS repository link (e.g. GitHub, GitLab)

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jxu commented 3 months ago

btw gksu has been deprecated for a while now.

fazlearefin commented 3 months ago

Both gksu and gksudo are no longer maintained. Having it installed on a system can seriously have potential security issues. pkexec is one of the recommended alternatives.

I suggest creating page for pkexec instead.

kbdharun commented 3 months ago

I think people checking these tutorials (i.e. those working in enterprises running something like Ubuntu 14.04 or 16.04 LTS) might still try accessing the tldr page for it (we should probably create something like an alias page noting its deprecation and suggest pkexec instead in the example, we can use the more information link as this https://manned.org/man/gksudo so that if they really need the usage they can check this out)

This way we can tailor both to current and legacy users.