On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 02:02 +0900, Satoru Matsumoto wrote:
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> Sergei Cherepanov wrote:
> > Hi
> > I've started to use smart instead of apt recently and i have a
> > problem. Smart works great from console with sudo but when i try to
> > run it with --gui option i get "permission denied" on every rpm
> > operation (under unprivileged user) or "RuntimeError: could not open
> > display" when i start it with sudo.
> > I think i can make smart suid but this will result in a possible
> > security hole. Is there a more gentle way?
> 
> I don't know whether it will be enogh for you or not, try
> 
> $ sux - -c 'smart --gui'
> 
> You will be prompted to enter root password, though.
> 
When I launch smart in KDE I use the menu entry under
System-->Configuration and it automatically asks for root's password.
Perhaps you can launch it the same way. Since smart is using rpm to
install/delete packages you will need to run it as root.

-- 
Ken Schneider
UNIX  since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE  since 1998


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