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.
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.
gksu, kdesu, sux, Polkit, PAM, & GVFS. All of which are privilege elevation frameworks that can securely obtain the required privileges without running GUI applications directly as root. Granted you may need to configure PAM & Polkit’s policies to make them more secure.
The problem with sudo is that it runs the entire GUI application as Root. These frameworks are the proper way.
BleachBit is a Linux disk space cleaner thats based on Python, PyGTK, & GTK2. BleachBit never prompts the user for authentication for operations requiring elevated privileges, it just fails with “permission denied”. Inturn you can use
sudo, or the by far more recommended and safer optionsgksudo/gksu,kdesu&pkexec.gksuandkdesuare unsupported for >10 years iirc, they were not more secure thansudoand that’s one of the reasons they were abandoned. I’ve never heard aboutsux. Polkit is a bit another thing that indeed replaced them, however it does not and can not separate GUI and non-GUI processes. The process itself has to fork, drop privileges and draw a GUI after that. There’s no difference between running it viasudoorpkexec, however polkit provide additional protections to prevent running unsafe apps with elevated privileges.PAM and GVFS are not “privilege elevation frameworks” whatever you mean by this.