Bug#985815: RFS: usermanager/1.0.74+git20210323-1 [ITP] -- Graphical user manager
On 26.03.2021 06:12, Adam Borowski wrote:
On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Gürkan Myczko wrote:
> The menu icon for .desktop doesn't show up for me (in XFCE).
probably because it's .gif and fd.o doesn't support it
And, according to the spec:
https://specifications.freedesktop.org/icon-theme-spec/icon-theme-spec-latest.html
it's not supposed to.
Could you thus convert the icon to .png, please?
Absolutely, although I want to note, my test showed the gif is displayed
with
GNOME.
> Some method of su{,do}-to-root should be providen -- as is, the program
> fails to start claiming it needs root, and starting it as root manually
> involves some bits generally unknown by users who need a clicky-clicky
> tool (ie, the intended audience).
for upstream
Hrm, I then don't quite see what the intended audience for this package
could be. The basic instructions how to run a GUI program as root
(start a
shell, find out $DISPLAY, su/sudo, set up display, cp ~user/.Xauthority
~,
invoke from cmdline) are already far more complex than just running
relevant
adduser/usermod/deluser commands from a shell.
The audience is simple GUI users, true, the note "for upstream" was
meant
"for upstream to fix".
My recommendation would be open terminal, be root, start UserManager.
I don't even want to think about the possibilities how to do this (right
or not).
For the upstream to break his head imho.
And besides, running a GUI program as root is not that good an idea,
compared to separating out the privileged parts (be it to an unreliable
dbus
complexity, or to a simple easily-auditable setuid helper).
Possibly.
But really, I don't know enough about crossing privilege boundaries in
a GUI
to be comfortable reviewing this bit.
Ack.
Meow!
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