Why does gksudo ...

[der.hans]

Am 10. Jun, 2006 schwätzte Dazed_75 so:

> 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.
>
> (gedit:5638): GnomeUI-WARNING **: While connecting to session manager:
> Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols
> specified are supported and host-based authentication failed.

Not sure. It's a warning, but it seems to be a warning saying, "Hey, this
isn't going to work."

Can you turn up verbosity on gtksudo?

ciao,

der.hans
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