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Old 04-14-2006, 09:12 PM   #1
admkryski
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This program was running on computer when I returned.


gksu -u root /usr/sbin/synaptic
This was run in a terminal. I would like to know if this
could do any harm to the computer. Since no one was home
this had to be run from my web connection.

Thanks admkryski
 
Old 04-14-2006, 10:40 PM   #2
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Welcome to LQ!

Synaptic is a Debian package manager.
 
Old 04-14-2006, 10:43 PM   #3
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and this is what gksu is:

http://www.nongnu.org/gksu/
 
  


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