2010/3/6 Francesco Fumanti <francesco.fuma...@gmx.net>: > Could anybody please confirm that pkexec is intended to start > GUI-applications like synaptic and if possible point to some documentation > about how to do it (or could anybody explain it to me)?
>From http://hal.freedesktop.org/docs/polkit/pkexec.1.html: "The environment that PROGRAM will run in, will be set to a minimal known and safe environment in order to avoid injecting code through LD_LIBRARY_PATH or similar mechanisms. In addition the PKEXEC_UID environment variable is set to the user id of the process invoking pkexec. As a result, pkexec will not allow you to run e.g. X11 applications as another user since the $DISPLAY environment variable is not set. " So, it doesn't look like it is. -- Siegfried-Angel Gevatter Pujals (RainCT) Free Software Developer 363DEAE3 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
