Question

This is about me being stressed by playing the game “type a command and remember to prepend sudo or your fingers will get slapped”.

I am wondering if it is possible somehow to configure my Linux system or shell such that when I forget to type e.g. “sudo apt-get install emacs”, instead of just telling me that I did something wrong, gksudo would get launched, allowing me to acknowledge my credentials and get on moving. Just like UAC does on windows.

Googling hasn’t helped me yet..

So is this possible? Did I miss something? Or am I asking for a square circle?

Edit 2010 July 25th: Thanks everyone for your interrest. Unfortunately, Daenyth and bmargulies answers and explanations are what I anticipated/feared since it was impossible for me to google-up a solution prior to submitting this question. I hope that some nice person will someday provide an effective solution for this.

BR,
Christian

Answer 1

There’s no way to do this given the current linux software stack. Additionally, MS has a patent on this behavior — present a user interface identifying an account having a right to permit a task in response to the task being prohibited based on a user's current account not having that right.