On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 09:36:34AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman <[email protected]> was heard to say: > On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Matus UHLAR - > fantomas<[email protected]> wrote: > > 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.
It looks like you can create a profile for gnome-terminal that tells it to launch a custom command instead of your login shell (say, "sudo bash"). I don't know if you can tell gnome-terminal that all the tabs in a window should get a particular profile, but it might be worth exploring. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
