What specific bad things happen when gedit is used with sudo?
33749
Why should users never use normal sudo to start graphical applications?
19292
Prevent gedit from creating files with the '~' (tilde) suffix
40238
How to activate the Gedit terminal plugin?
45541
How to fix sudo after "chmod -R 777 /usr/bin"?
116601
What is the difference between 'su -' , 'sudo bash' and 'sudo sh'?
19521
Why is it bad to log in as root?
148736
How can I alias a command for sudo?
67038
I can use sudo but I can't use su due to a password Authentication failure, shouldn't both be the same password?
66473
Can't open Gedit as root
41948
warning message at command line `sudo`
60165
Why is it called sudo?
85093
'sudo su -' vs 'sudo -i' vs 'sudo /bin/bash' - when does it matter which is used, or does it matter at all?
78893
Linux - why do the su and sudo binaries need to be set-UID root?
7317
how to: Please sudo, do _not_ setup any environment, especially $SUDO_USER?
26770
How to append to a file as sudo?
116001
Why does the root user need sudo permission?
81334
What's exactly the point of the sudo command, in terms of security?