gksu not working

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 18:05 +0100, Stevan Tiefert wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
> I want to execute some applications as root and I wanted to use gksu or
> gksudo for doing it. When I executed 'gksu gedit' the dialog for
> entering the password is coming up and after entering the password
> nothing happens. In a gnome-terminal gksu has to be Ctrl+C'ed to return
> back to prompt, because there was no respond. The man page of gksu is
> very old (2003). On the official-website of gksu a message notifies that
> gksu is replaced by PolicyKit. Is gksu working at all or is there
> another tool to do this task under gnome?

I use gnomesu, and it works fine in GNOME 2.28.

Joe

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