gksu Alternatives

gksu is described as 'library and application used to ask the user for passwords to run programs as root' and is an app in the network & admin category. There are three alternatives to gksu for Linux. The best alternative is ktsuss, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like gksu are KdeSudo and x11-ssh-askpass.

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gksu

Free • Open Source
Linux

gksu is a library and application used to ask the user for passwords to run programs as root.

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ktsuss
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Free • Open Source
Linux
2 alternatives to ktsuss
ktsuss stands for "keep the su simple, stupid", and as the name says, is a graphical version of su written in C and GTK+ 2. The idea of the project is to remain simple and bug free. Similar to gksu.
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KdeSudo
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Free • Open Source
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KdeSudo is a frontend for sudo and a replacement for kdesu. Unlike kdesu, it uses sudo directly as backend.

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x11-ssh-askpass
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1 alternatives to x11-ssh-askpass
x11-ssh-askpass is a lightweight passphrase dialog for OpenSSH or other open variants of SSH. In particular, x11-ssh-askpass is useful with the Unix port of OpenSSH by Damien Miller and others, and Damien includes it in his RPM packages of OpenSSH.
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