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.
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.
You’re not the first person to want this in Linux. As others mentioned, a form of it is built in. Much like windows apps that require elevated privileges. Similarly Linux apps will prompt for a password during launch if required on a properly configured OS. I’m not going to argue that it shouldn’t exist. I’ve rarely ever run a sudo from the terminal, but the few times I have over the last decade+, Dolphin file manager has a nice option for the terminal built into it which makes it easy.