D-Bus is killing me

[Thiago Macieira]

Timothy Vismor wrote:
>On 12/17/06, Matthew Johnson <dbus at matthew.ath.cx> wrote:
>> Generally you cannot access a session bus as root. This is because
>> root normally doesn't run a session bus and you cannot connect to the
>> session bus as any user other than the one which owns it. sudo <dbus
>> process> just doesn't work. This is a security measure.
>
>Gnome VFS uses D-Bus. If you decide you want to edit a system
>configuration file with gedit, you can't
>
>sudo gedit
>
>then navigate to the config file with the file chooser. Instead, you
>must log out of your user account and log in as  root via GDM to use
>gedit with enhanced privileges. This seems like a big security gain.
>Maybe I'm missing something.

You can do this:
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS= sudo gedit

Or:
su - -c 'gedit'

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