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Stumbling over this bugzilla comment[1] from @ebassi warning about running GUI applications as root on #Linux. That all sounds very plausible to me. The only thing that bugs me, which isn't ebassi's fault, is that when you search for "how to properly implement privilege escalation on Linux" you mainly find links to exploit howtos.

[1] bugzilla.gnome.org//show_bug.c…

Bug 772875 – [wayland] can't run application as root using sudo

bugzilla.gnome.org
#linux @Emmanuele Bassi
in reply to ivanhoe

Emmanuele Bassi
Emmanuele Bassi
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The answer is: "use polkit". Apparently, the search engine juice isn't strong enough. The worst thing is that if you search for "privilege escalation polkit", you get to pages detailing a bug in polkit.

I guess we need more guides for that. Maybe I should write one for the GNOME developer docs.

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ivanhoe
ivanhoe
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Yeah, tell me about it. I haven't come across any good guides so far. After piecing together some information I found a medium article summarizing what I had found up until that point and the author also commented on the fact that good documentation on the subject is hard to find :smile:
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