Ubuntu
gksu package

gksudo argument handling differs from sudo

Bug #13549 reported by Sven Herzberg
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gksu (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Sebastien Bacher

Bug Description

1. Open Applications >> Launch...
2. Enter "gksudo gedit /etc/fstab"
3. See that it fails

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote :

gksudo accepts only one argument, not several. You need to use:

gksudo "gedit /etc/fstab"

to do what you want. As far as I can tell, this is intentional, though I agree
that it would be less surprising if it behaved like sudo

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Gustavo Noronha Silva (kov) wrote :

My main focus has been su from the beginning; gksudo used to behave like sudo
versions before, but when I rewrote the argument parsing code I decided to stick
to the su-like parsing. I have no time right now to change this, and am not sure
this would be a good thing this close to a Debian release, but I am willing to
look at patches, if they come up.

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Jeroen (jeroenubuntu) wrote :

I can confirm this, but If I do "gksudo gedit /etc/fstab" it opens: ~/'/etc/fstab'

It should work like sudo.

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Gustavo Noronha Silva (kov) wrote :

This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 16966.

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