On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Matus UHLAR - fantomas<uh...@fantomas.sk> wrote: > On 13.06.09 09:32, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports >> 'Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.' How do I fix this? Is >> it some idiotic "security feature"? (I get really steamed when fear >> overrides function!) > > why do you want to sun gnome-terminal under sudo, instead of running su/sudo > in gnome terminal?
Doing the former allows me to open new tabs as root, doing the latter (with 'su') requires that I provide my root password every time; using 'sudo' requires that I provide 'sudo command' every time. It's just a lot less convenient, but still doable, which is why the security excuse is BS. It's yet another example of sacrificing function to fear. Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
