Bug#533089: (gnome-terminal: Root Terminal doesn't open)

[Rick Thomas]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Patrick Wiseman<pwiseman at gmail.com>  
wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Andrei Popescu<andreimpopescu at gmail.com 
> > wrote:
>> On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
>>> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports
>>
>> How do you know that? I thought gksu was used for that. Try:
>>
>> gksu gnome-terminal
>
> That yields:
>
> ** (gnome-terminal:14228): WARNING **: Failed to connect to the
> session manager: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the
> authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based
> authentication failed
>
> Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting.
>
> Which, I suppose, is slightly more informative.  But the fact remains
> that Root Terminal in the Accessories menu is, for some reason,
> disabled.  (This is on a fully up-to-date, amd64, testing system.)

Further Googling informs me that "the result [of Gconf using D-Bus] is
that root applications can’t use the user’s GConf settings anymore.
This is a design restriction in D-Bus."
[http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518390]  Well,
that's just stupid, especially for experienced users like myself; I
NEED to be able to use gnome-terminal as root.  I don't want a hackish
workaround, I just want it to work as it always has.  Is there ANY way
to make D-Bus less restrictive?

Patrick