I found a (lengthy) guide to doing this but it is for gksu which is gone. I have to imagine there’s an easy way. I am running Ubuntu.

  • olutukko@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Now this is actually wrong. Firewall gui for example requires root. There are similar sysadmin guis that need it too

    • zelifcam@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year ago

      While I agree their comment is wrong - GParted , firewall and other apps all prompt for a password when launching from a properly configured environment.

    • bizdelnick@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Sysadmin GUI tools are designed to be secure by isolating GUI from privileged process. That is not true for a random GUI app.