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gksudo equivilent

1000294Apr 1 2013 — edited Apr 2 2013

We have an oracle DBA that needs a GUI to install any Oracle products. On other Linux flavors, they can run "gksudo" to become the oracle user, and install the software. We need a way to accomplish this on Oracle Linux. It is against our security policy to log in with a generic account (such as "oracle"), so we need this alternative.

When I try just "sudo", I cannot run any GUI commands, because it cannot access the display:

X11 connection rejected because of wrong authentication.
Could not parse arguments: Cannot open display:

We really need a solution to the missing gksudo.

This post has been answered by Avi Miller-Oracle on Apr 2 2013

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