[Wayland-bugs] [Bug 772875] [wayland] can't run application as root using sudo

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https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772875

Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) <ebassi at gmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #2 from Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) <ebassi at gmail.com> ---
To further elaborate: the appropriate way to run gedit with sudo is:

  set EDITOR=gedit
  sudo -e /etc/some/file/owned/by/root

which will run gedit in your session, on a temporary file, and then sudo will
swap the temporary file with the target.

If you want to just browse files, GVFS now has an 'admin:' URI scheme which
will let you open files via appropriate privilege escalation through polkit.

In short: there is no reason whatsoever to run a GUI application — with its
unknown security surface, using various dependencies at build and run time,
themselves with unknown security surface — as root.

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