gksudo 2 commands with one PW entry?

Question

Before upgrading to 12.04 (from 10.04) I used this little launcher script:

 #!/bin/bash  
 gksudo nautilus /var/www/DFDII & sleep 5; gksudo gedit /var/www/DFDII/iindex.php

This script opened both nautilus and gedit with just one PW entry, now it asks for PW twice ?

Also, annoyingly, now gedit also open "untitled document 1" (close > save changes ? NOOOOO!...

Answer 1

Two main options:

1. Demand that the whole script be run as root. Lots of scripts just exit out and suggest the user prepend the command with gksu.

2. Run things like this:

   #!/bin/bash
   gksu -- bash -c 'whoami; whoami; whoami # all these return root'