On Thursday 04 April 2019 15:57:17 Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:46:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > > The solution seems simple enough, fix wayland. This is after all a > > multiuser and multitasking OS, why go out of the way, way out of the > > way to make it work like win-3.0? > > The notion of running a client as user X to talk to a display server > running as user Y seems to directly contradict the Wayland security > model. As far as I can understand it, given the rather vague Wayland > documentation I've seen so far. > > I think the "correct" fix for synaptic would be to redesign it to run > the graphical interface as you, communicating with an auxiliary > process that runs as root which can install and remove packages. That > second process could be a child of synaptic, or an independent daemon > of some kind. Authentication methods to be determined by whomever does > the work. > > I would not describe this solution as "simple". Maybe you had a > different solution in mind.
I didn't intend to say it was simple. Its also incorrect. Fix one or the other, but I don't expect it to be "simple". You fix wayland once, or you fix half the os's utilities. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
