Root and Wayland

[Tomaz Canabrava]

On Wed, Nov 1, 2017 at 4:27 PM, Martin Měřinský <mermar at centrum.cz> wrote:

> On Tue, 2017-10-31 at 18:21 +0100, Robert C. Helling wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > Am 31.10.2017 um 12:51 schrieb Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabrava at kde.org>
> > > :
> > >
> > >
> > > perhaps we should remove that, period.
> >
> > A while ago, we had problems with people who at some point ran
> > subsurface as root and the touched all kinds of files which meant
> > later it did no longer run under the normal user. So I added the test
> > and, since I didn’t want to for it users to shoot in their foot if
> > they insisted on that introduced this command line option. So from
> > that perspective it could simply go.
> >
> > The only reason I see for running with root privileges is checking if
> > some problem is really because of lacking permissions. But still
> > that’s not a good excuse.
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> I don't see what is undocumented feature good for. From my point of
> view, it would be better to remove such feature, disable to run
> Subsurface as root and fix error messages.
>
> On the other hand, I personally don't like software preventing user
> from doing something he wants, if there is no technical reason to.
> Running Subsurface as root under Wayland can be fixed (using polkig?).
> And the necessity to use --allow_run_as_root option is very good and
> very discouraging ;-) Document such feature with warning should be good
> enough.
>
>
A lot of users don't know what they are doing, they are basically following
internet recipes and running sudo $rand
its important to prevent users shooting at their own foot.


Another option would be enabling this feature compile-time. I do not
> prefer this solution.
>
> M.
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