Announce: Flatpak 1.6.2 released
Alexander Larsson
alexander.larsson at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 17:16:29 UTC 2020
On Thu, Feb 13, 2020 at 6:14 PM Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 14:42, Alexander Larsson
> <alexander.larsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > * Disallow running "flatpak run" under sudo (as it doesn't work and
> > causes issues)
>
> Ohh? That's the only way to currently make fwupd work -- it reads all
> kinds of things out of /sys and won't work correctly even with
> filesystems=host and devices=all :(
Its fine to run it as real root. But with sudo there are risks that
stuff it does writes things owned as root to your users homedir which
can cause permissions issues later.
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