On 6/20/23 17:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote:
Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why?
What's special about GUI apps versus those you run in a terminal?
The extreme example is a web browser. Your typical web browser probably
has thousands of bugs in it.
GUI apps are big and complicated. Running them with elevated privileges
is just asking for problems.
In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send
requests to a daemon that runs as root, or simply issue shell commands
with "sudo" or something, to do the parts that need extra privs.
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+10,000 Greg. Foisting this change on the users, without fixing the apps
it effects, is only driving us users mad and crippling what our macines
can do. Synaptic is not the only app it blocks, geany is blocked too,
not that I have ever, except for this test, attempted to run geany as
root. Like firefox, its big and complex, but unlike gedit has never
trashed a file for me, gedit has ruined so many I finally banned it from
my machines, all of them.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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