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Package: gksu (2.0.2-5ubuntu2)

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Please consider filing a bug or asking a question via Launchpad before contacting the maintainer directly.

Original Maintainers (usually from Debian):

  • Gustavo Noronha Silva
  • Debian GNOME Maintainers (Mail Archive)
  • Gustavo Noronha Silva
  • Josselin Mouette

It should generally not be necessary for users to contact the original maintainer.

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graphical frontend to su

gksu is a Gtk+ frontend to /bin/su. 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.

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    Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
    also a virtual package provided by libc6-udeb
    dep: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~) [i386]
  • dep: libgksu2-0 (>= 2.0.8)
    library providing su and sudo functionality
  • dep: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.16)
    The GLib library of C routines
  • dep: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.8.0)
    The GTK+ graphical user interface library
  • dep: sudo
    Provide limited super user privileges to specific users
    also a virtual package provided by sudo-ldap

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Architecture Package Size Installed Size Files
amd64 26.9 kB164.0 kB [list of files]
i386 26.2 kB160.0 kB [list of files]