On 2019-04-05, Dumitru Moldovan <du...@gmx.com> wrote: > Also, if you need to edit files in /etc, do it with a minimal editor > from the base system, like vi, not with a full-blown GUI application.
Or copy to a temporary file, run the editor as your user, and copy back. With sudo there's "sudoedit" that automates this; doas doesn't have this but it could be implemented as a script. The technique Bruno suggests (setting the Xauthority path etc) can also be used for running software as a *less* privileged user too (e.g. if you don't want something to have access to files in your ~). > >
