On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 7:22 PM Bruce Dubbs via blfs-dev < blfs-dev@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> On 2/1/21 5:46 PM, Tim Tassonis via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I just installed gparted for the first time as in the SVN book (version > > 1.2.0) and it seems that the part about root privileges seems to be > > outdated. > > > > I installed gparted without any helper stuff and it seems that the > > provided org.gnome.gparted.policy already does the trick: when I call > > gparted, it asks me about an admin user and after I enter the password, > > gparted starts just fine. ps shows that it runs under root: > > > > timtas@lfsda0:~/src/lgl/src/lgl-2.5/desk/093-gparted$ ps -ef |grep > parted > > timtas 19549 19445 0 00:35 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh > > /opt/X11/bin/gparted > > root 19552 19549 0 00:35 ? 00:00:00 /bin/sh > > /opt/X11/bin/gparted > > root 19578 19552 1 00:36 ? 00:00:09 /opt/X11/sbin/gpartedbin > > > > > > gparted also links against dbus/elogind, which is not listed as a > > dependency in the book. > > I can't confirm what you found because the very infrequent times I've > run gparted I just use sudo from the command line. However, gparted > does require gtkmm->gtk3->libepoxy->mesa->xorg libraries->elogind > (recommended) > > > Can anybody confirm this? I can update the page, if nobody else wants to. > > If you get someone else to confirm, go ahead and make the change. > I've tested and can confirm that the helpers are not needed but with a caveat. org.gnome.gparted.policy is a polkit rule so polkit has to be installed. It isn't listed as a dependency (should it be recommended?) for gparted. If the user running gparted is in the wheel group they shouldn't be asked for an admin user/pass.
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