Comment 27 for bug 47388

Many thanks Anders - I can now finally use gksu again!

However, while I think I understand the technical reasons for the way things are, from a more holistic perspective I disagree that this bug should be marked invalid for the following reasons:

- It requires _more_ steps to run programs as another user compared with running programs as root (this just seems wrong)
- I don't think people running GNOME should need to be concerned about the details of X security ("GNOME is not UNIX" argument)
- gksu fails to run as documented with no discernible reason why (at the very least, a note with the above solution should be added to man pages/documentation)

I don't enter the other users password when running the program as that user - gksu asks me for my own password (in the same way that it asks me for my own password when running a program as root)

I'm aware of the fast user switcher, but gksu serves a different (and often more convenient) purpose. One could argue the same for running anything else as root.

-Darren