Raphael Geissert wrote:
Fathi Boudra wrote:
Quoting the maintainer:
> I do not think it is a good idea to use su-to-root inside .desktop
> file, because this would make such .desktop file Debian-specific
> (and thus would not be integrated upstream). Instead a freedesktop
> approved remplacement to su-to-root should be provided by xdg-utils.
AOL, that sounds like the "right way" to do things.
discussed with freedesktop people some years ago.
The tool isn't ready yet and was postponed later.
Yeah. And like I said, _we_ could start using it and later, when it is
popular, make other people adopt it. Unless a better way to su to root in a
non DE-dependent way is created.
Well, the real fd.o solution here is PackageKit. Its a bad thing to run
things using graphical toolkits as root, as they're not going to have
been audited for security. With PackageKit you use a small, auditable
dbus service to do the task you need doing as root, and have the actual
UI running in the users security domain.
Thanks,
Rob
search "alternative to X-KDE-SubstituteUID for non KDE desktops" thread.
cheers,
Fathi
Cheers,
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