On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, pa...@quillandmouse.com wrote: > Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why? > What's special about GUI apps versus those you run in a terminal?
The extreme example is a web browser. Your typical web browser probably has thousands of bugs in it. GUI apps are big and complicated. Running them with elevated privileges is just asking for problems. In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send requests to a daemon that runs as root, or simply issue shell commands with "sudo" or something, to do the parts that need extra privs.
