When you issue something like gksudo "gedit foofile" in a terminal in gnome, the terminal shows an error message (see below) but the commans works anyway.  Can anyone explain for me in English what is actually happening?  While I have no problem with the result, it seems like there should be a failure and it makes me curious.
<br><br><blockquote>(gedit:5638): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:<br>Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.
<br></blockquote>TIA<br clear="all">-- <br>"The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers may be concealed from them."<br><br> Patrick Henry quote