On 12/7/2017 8:15 PM, bodhi.zazen wrote: > Wayland , upstream, does not and will not support running graphical > applications, as root, from the terminal using sudo , period, end of story. > There are other mechanisms to grant graphical applications root access, but > again the application itself is not going to run as root.
Yes, it does, as you can easily test by suing to root and running gedit. > And if you take your fat head out of your ass and look upstream you will > see every bug files against wayland regarding the problem of running > graphical applications with sudo has been closed as either not a bug or > wont fix. https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91071 is not. Neither is https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=789867 And there it is noted that wayland does not explicitly allow or deny root applications. > On the forums, we would ban him for a period of time, 1-3 months > depending on his behavior. Often we would start with a week or a month, > but on his return he would start right back up with his violations, and > we would extend the ban. Eventually he would cool down and we would > restore his privileges. Well now you're just lieing. You banned me permanently one time because I dared to point out that you incorrectly closed another user's thread for breaking the rules when he did no such thing. > reference 32 is here https://lwn.net/Articles/517375/ This talks about weston not having to be run as root; not disallowing client applications running as root. > The blog is here http://mupuf.org/blog/2014/02/19/wayland-compositors- > why-and-how-to-handle/ This talks about having weston be able to isolate different clients from interfering with one another. Nowhere does it talk about refusing clients with uid=0. > Please could both of you take a deep breath and stop the personal > attacks and aggressive language? I haven't made any personal attacks. What I have done is point out that this misconception that disallowing root applications is not true; that gdm fails to perform its job as described by its man page. This therefore is, ipso facto, a bug, whether or not you agree with the terrible user facing consequences it has. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to gdebi in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1713313 Title: Unable to launch pkexec'ed applications on Wayland session Status in Back In Time: Fix Released Status in Boot-Info: Fix Committed Status in Boot-Repair: Fix Committed Status in GNOME Terminal: New Status in Settings editor for LightDM GTK+ Greeter: New Status in OS-Uninstaller: Fix Committed Status in Y PPA Manager: New Status in apport package in Ubuntu: New Status in apt-offline package in Ubuntu: New Status in backintime package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in budgie-welcome package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in caja-admin package in Ubuntu: New Status in cinnamon package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in ettercap package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gdebi package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gdm3 package in Ubuntu: Won't Fix Status in gnunet-gtk package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in gparted package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in gui-ufw package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in guidedog package in Ubuntu: New Status in hplip package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in italc package in Ubuntu: New Status in laptop-mode-tools package in Ubuntu: New Status in lightdm-gtk-greeter-settings package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nautilus-admin package in Ubuntu: New Status in needrestart-session package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in nemo package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in policykit-1 package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in scanmem package in Ubuntu: New Status in scap-workbench package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in sirikali package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Status in synaptic package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in thunar package in Ubuntu: New Status in tuned package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntustudio-controls package in Ubuntu: New Status in ubuntustudio-default-settings package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu: New Status in xdiagnose package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in xubuntu-default-settings package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in zulucrypt package in Ubuntu: Fix Released Bug description: ***************************** Main upstream discussion & fixes example to deal with wayland: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776437 ***************************** ******************************************************************************************************************************************** Steps to reproduce: 1. Install Ubuntu 17.10 2. Install backintime-qt4 or gparted application from above list (full may be acquired from https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=pkexec+filetype%3Adesktop+path%3A*%2Fapplications%2F*&perpkg=1&page=4 ) 3a. Try to launch backintime-qt4 from shortcut "Back In Time (root)" (located in /usr/share/applications/backintime-qt4-root.desktop, it uses pkexec ($ cat /usr/share/applications/backintime-qt4-root.desktop | grep Exec Exec=pkexec backintime-qt4) 3b. Try to launch Gparted from shortcut "GParted" (located in /usr/share/applications/gparted.desktop, it uses gparted-pkexec) 4a.1. Back In Time does not start from GUI. 4a.2. Back In Time shows error message in console: 4b. gparted-pkexec does not start, reports error $ gparted-pkexec Created symlink /run/systemd/system/-.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/run-user-121.mount → /dev/null. Created symlink /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount → /dev/null. No protocol specified (gpartedbin:12831): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: :0 Removed /run/systemd/system/-.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-1000.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/run-user-121.mount. Removed /run/systemd/system/tmp.mount. $ pkexec backintime-qt4 Back In Time Version: 1.1.12 Back In Time comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; type `backintime --license' for details. No protocol specified app.py: cannot connect to X server :0 Expected results: * backintime-qt4 may be run as root Actual results: * unable to run backintime-qt4 as root Workaround: * setting "xhost +si:localuser:root" helps. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10 Package: backintime-qt4 1.1.12-2 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.12.0-11.12-generic 4.12.5 Uname: Linux 4.12.0-11-generic i686 ApportVersion: 2.20.6-0ubuntu7 Architecture: i386 CurrentDesktop: GNOME Date: Sun Aug 27 14:23:14 2017 InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-26 (0 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha i386 (20170826) PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: backintime UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime/+bug/1713313/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
