Icon to launch app as root?

Miro Wagner m_wagner-rieW9WUcm8FFJ04o6PK0Fg at public.gmane.org
Sun Dec 4 06:17:37 UTC 2005


gksudo, if I understand your question.

On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 12:28 -0500, Steve wrote:
> Is there a way to modify an application icon so that it will launch as 
> root, and therefore prompt for password?
> 
> I'm using Ubuntu Hoary (Gnome), and want to modify an app's icon so that 
> it will be "sudo <blahblah>". I tried changing the Commandline in the 
> icon's properties to this, but that doesn't work.
> 
> I suspect either it is very easy, or impossible... :-)
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> -Steve.

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