Am 15. Februar 2017 23:58:50 MEZ schrieb Wolfgang Bauer <wba...@tmo.at>: >Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2017, 22:21:19 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: >> Please do not consider starting a GUI application as root a >possibility. > >Ok, but partitionmanager does exactly that. It restarts itself as root >if run >as user. >So that instantly would rule out partionmanager as a proposed >replacement, I >suppose.
Yes partition manager should not do that. They are aware of the issue. > >But KFloppy is quite a simple application. >There should not really be a special risk involved running it as root, >but I >might be mistaken there. You are. The danger is Qt and all the other libraries it depends on. Even xlib and xcb hardly protect against a malicious X server. And we just cannot assume any more that X is running as root. Cheers Martin