I found a (lengthy) guide to doing this but it is for gksu which is gone. I have to imagine there’s an easy way. I am running Ubuntu. There is no specific use case, it is just a feature I miss from windows.

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    9 months ago

    gedit uses polkit and should prompt you with a password when modifying a file that needs root priviledges. you shouldn’t have to run it as root