Hi, polkit or not, some solution will have to be found eventually as Wayland will phase out X. Developers have made it clear they don't think running GUI apps as root is a good idea, so they won't support it any longer. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451#c62
For now, it seems the easiest, yet somewhat insecure, workaround is using "xhost si:localuser:root" before running gufw, gparted or any other GUI app that still relies on direct root access, and then using "xhost -si:localuser:root" (notice the "-") to revoke root's right to access your local user's X session. ** Bug watch added: Red Hat Bugzilla #1274451 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Gufw Developers, which is subscribed to Gufw. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1652857 Title: GUI should not run as root, instead should use polkit Status in Gufw: Opinion Bug description: GUFW cannot connect to XServer as root. This is due to new security policy in XWayland. Log attached. The current way that GUFW's GUI runs is to login as start and operate as root. This is a problem if the GUI tries to run with XWayland. On modern Linux desktops, application GUI's run as the normal user and request special permissions through other means - polkit for example. This should be implemented for GUFW as well in order to make it work with Wayland (XWayland) security model. More info can be found here - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1274451 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gui-ufw/+bug/1652857/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gufw-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gufw-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
