Factual problem with sudo on page 123

[Benjamin Radke]

Chapter 6, 'Introducing sudo'
Page 123

In the example of sudo a graphical application is used (gedit). As far as I know using sudo with graphical applications is dangerous and I was told to use gksudo (for further information: http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/graphicalsudo).

I think that a non-graphical application might be better as a example.

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[Benjamin Radke (jimbanne)]

I missed that there is another bug to this fact: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-manual/+bug/546295
At least I think that the same text passage is meant even though the page numbers differs (perhaps the reason why I missed it first).

Nevertheless I think it is not a good idea to use a graphical application as an example, also there would be probably no problem with especially gedit. The eventuality that a user accidentally uses sudo with an graphical application which causes a log in problem alarms me.

[Chris Woollard (cwoollard)]

In this case we have decided that we will maintain the use of sudo. This section is talking about the use of sudo and not gksudo.

There is also a note on the right hand side of the page that implies that the command is being run from a terminal window.

If we were demonstrating sudo from within the graphical environment (e.g. The Alt+F2 run menu), it would be more appropriate to use gksudo as the user would not be prompted to enter a password.

Thanks for taking the time to help out.

Chris