Comment 40 for bug 1713313

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Jeremy BĂ­cha (jbicha) wrote :

Please do not use sudo to run gedit. Just use admin:/// URIs.

For instance, open admin:///etc/default/grub if you want to change a grub bootloader setting with gedit. You can use those admin:// URIs in most apps (it works in nautilus). The admin gvfs backend is a new feature in Ubuntu 17.04.