On Fri, 2015-10-30 at 11:41 -0400, John Dulaney wrote: > As Halfline points out, the decision needs to be made whether to allow > gui applications to be run as root. I figured I'd bring this up for > discussion in the hopes that a decision may be made whether or not to > allow this.
Anyone running any X (or wayland) application as root in their desktop session is completely bonkers and deserves every consequence of their poor decision. > In the instance that the decision is made to not allow gui applications > root access, then we will also need to figure out a sane way to have > applications that require more than the usual set of user priviledges to > continue to work across multiple compositors and window managers that > may or may not have the necessary authentication agents built-in. Like Bastien said, we've had this for ages. Typically people resist the solutions here because they consider it "bloat" or "unnecessary complexity"; the irony is not lost on me. - ajax -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
