GUI should not run as root, instead should use polkit
Bug #1652857 reported by
Konstantin Gizdov
This bug affects 4 people
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Gufw |
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Bug Description
GUFW cannot connect to XServer as root. This is due to new security policy in XWayland. Log attached.
The current way that GUFW's GUI runs is to login as start and operate as root. This is a problem if the GUI tries to run with XWayland. On modern Linux desktops, application GUI's run as the normal user and request special permissions through other means - polkit for example. This should be implemented for GUFW as well in order to make it work with Wayland (XWayland) security model.
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Hi,
Gufw was using polity kit and I don't desire to return to it, it was crazy for debugging.
A hug.