Announce: Flatpak 1.6.2 released

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Feb 13 17:26:30 UTC 2020


On Thu, 13 Feb 2020 at 17:16, Alexander Larsson
<alexander.larsson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

I guess I need to write some release notes about how to switch to the
root user, adding a password if not already set. e.g.

sudo passwd
su -l root -c "flatpak run org.freedesktop.fwupd get-devices"

Other ideas welcome.

Richard.


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