20.12.2017 17:07 Przemek Klosowski <przemek.klosow...@nist.gov> wrote: > > > The primary logged-in session is of course authorized to access the main > X11/wayland display, but it's often useful to add display authorization > to other accounts. For instance, looking at disk space with 'baobab' > works better as root because some areas of the filesystem are not > readable to normal users (*). I used to do such authorization by > > xhost +si:localhost:root > > but it recently stopped working: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527754 . Is there another > way of authorizing display access for other accounts? If not, this is a > fairly painful regression.
The same here: https://pagure.io/system-config-language https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 and AFAIUC the answer is that the applications should use polkit to run privileged operations while being able to display regular user's GUI. Regards, Rafał _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
