-u option is being ignored

[Darren Warner]

Running -u <user> has no effect - it will still run a program as root:

darrenw@washington:~$ gksu -u warnerd whoami
root
darrenw@washington:~$

[wilk (j-cubizolles)]

I've noticed the same behaviour here, which is really annoying. I used to rely heavily on gksudo to share photos databases with f-spot between users.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Confirmed here

mizar:[/tmp] gksu -u mdz id -a
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root)

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

I uploaded gksu_1.3.7-0ubuntu4_source today that fixed the problem. Please confirm that it fixes the problem for you as well.

Cheers,
 Michael

[Darren Warner (launchpad-dazwin)]

Running command line programs now work Ok but I still cannot run another X program as another user - looks like the xauth magic is getting messed up somewhere:

warnerd@washington:~$ gksu -u darrenw mozilla-thunderbird
Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server
Xlib: No protocol specified

(mozilla-thunderbird-bin:21113): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display:

This may be something completely unrelated but still falls under the problem of running programs as another user, so let me know if I should open another bug for this.