VirtualBox/setuid binaries

[Matthias Clasen]

On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 4:30 AM Michael Thayer <michael.thayer at oracle.com>
wrote:

> 16.11.18 09:50, Michael Thayer wrote:
> > A way to run a script with root privileges and a prominent warning to
> > the user at installation time would of course be helpful for my and
> > Robert's use case.  I can of course see that the Flatpak developers
> > might consider it a dangerous temptation for application developers;
> > then again I think that you check what gets onto Flathub and could
> > forbid most uses there.  I could do this anyway, the main problem would
> > be that I would have to tell the user to run the script manually and
> > work out the location in the file system, which is not very
> user-friendly.
>
> Just following up my own post, and coming back to a slightly refined
> version of my original idea unless someone suggests something better.
> For VirtualBox I could achieve most of what I want by providing a small
> additional starter tool to be installed separately from the Flatpak and
> referencing it from the desktop file in the Flatpak (instead of using
> /usr/bin/flatpak as a starter).  I should be able to achieve that in a
> user-friendly way, though of course I would depend on Flatpak being
> installed with the standard paths.  Since Endless presumably control
> their OS, perhaps they could do something on those lines too?
>
>
Hey Michael,

I was curious if you got furher with this approach, or found some other
solutions?
Anything we can do from the flatpak side to help you?

Matthias
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