On 2021-10-13 19:09:43 +0100, Paulo da Silva wrote: > Às 02:08 de 12/10/21, Michael Torrie escreveu: > > On 10/8/21 4:32 PM, Paulo da Silva wrote: > >> Às 22:56 de 08/10/21, Paulo da Silva escreveu: > >>> I need to debug a python3 script under root. I tried spyder but it does > >>> not work. > >>> > >>> Running as root without --no-sandbox is not supported. See > >>> https://crbug.com/638180. > >>> > >>> Thanks for any comments including alternative solutions to debug as root. > >>> > >> I also tried with eric and curiously it gave the same message!! > >> > >> This seems crazy. > > > > Not so crazy. It's incredibly dangerous to run a web browser as root.
Mostly because a web browser is usually used to interpret untrusted content from other sites ... > > There's no reason I can think of for running a python script driving > > a web browser as root. ... but this doesn't apply if the browser is just a display for a locally running script. The script is already running as root. It can do all the evil stuff without the help of a browser. > spyder and eric are both python editors/debuggers! Why are they > related with web browsers?! They probably use a browser engine to implement the GUI. This isn't uncommon. See Electron (https://www.electronjs.org/) for example. I didn't see anything on the Spyder website about how it is implemented (I didn't look very hard) but the error message hints that there's a Chromium hidden somewhere. And Eric uses Qt5, and Chromium is derived from WebKit which is Qt's browser engine. It's a bit weird that this also refers to Chromium's bug tracker and not Qt's, but there's certainly a common ancestry here. hp -- _ | Peter J. Holzer | Story must make more sense than reality. |_|_) | | | | | h...@hjp.at | -- Charles Stross, "Creative writing __/ | http://www.hjp.at/ | challenge!"
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