GNU/Linux Ubuntu 21.10 Installing GKSu – QuickStart Guide
Hi! The Tutorial shows you Step-by-Step How Emulate GKSu in Ubuntu 21.10 Impish GNU/Linux Desktop.
And GKSu for Ubuntu 21.10 is a Library that provides a Gtk+ Frontend to su and sudo.
Moreover, it supports login shells and preserving environment when acting as a su frontend. It is useful to Menu items or other Graphical Programs that need to ask a user’s Password to run another Program as another User.
Especially relevant: GKSu is NOT ANYMORE AVAILABLE, it has been definitively removed from Repos for SECURITY ISSUES concerns.
So see instead the: GKSu Alternative Pkexec.
1. Launching Terminal
Open a Terminal window
Ctrl+Alt+t on Desktop
(Press “Enter” to Execute Commands)
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