Too many files in a directory?
bizdelnick
joined 1 year ago
Probably? They won't run with sudo normally (in xorg at least). And only those explicitly allowed to be run with pkexec by maintainers will do. Of course it is possible to evade this restriction, but you definitely should not.
Sysadmin GUI tools are designed to be secure by isolating GUI from privileged process. That is not true for a random GUI app.
Nope. Running GUI as root in the same X server as unprivileged apps is insecure because each of them can take control over privileged window. IDK if this issue has been addressed in Wayland, but anyway there are no wayland-only distros nowadays.
Don't do this. I'm unsure if this works in any distro, but if it does, this is unsecure.
Don't do this. I'm unsure if this works in any distro, but if it does, this is unsecure.
I have no idea what you are talking about. The answer to your question is: this is impossible and this is done for purpose. Don't try to work in linux like in windows.
Use bash-completion, it is much faster than clicking menus.
every distro I’ve tried has a strong sense that if you’re using the GUI you don’t need or deserve admin controls
GUI tools are not suited to be run as root in general. Few ones that are have special measures taken to prevent gaining privileges by another process, e. g. run a background non-GUI process as root and GUI communicating with it as an ordinary user. Such tools (package managers, system tweakers etc.) are usually configured to get required privileges via polkit (e. g. pkexec synaptic to run GUI package manager in Debian). Don't use sudo to run GUI programs!
You don't need to run any GUI programs as root.
It's not when app was written. Wayland apps probably work with sudo, x11 don't because sudo does not pass the
$DISPLAYenvironment variable. It's a correct behavior of sudo because running x11 apps with root permission you create a security hole.