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

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gksu alternatives page was last updated Sep 9, 2022
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    ktsuss

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    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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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    ktsuss Features

    1.  Gtk
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    • ktsuss is the most popular Linux alternative to gksu.

    • ktsuss is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to gksu.

    • ktsuss is Free and Open Sourcegksu is also Free and Open Source
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    KdeSudo

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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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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux
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    x11-ssh-askpass

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    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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    License model

    • Free • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Linux

    x11-ssh-askpass Features

    1.  SSH
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