Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:59:56AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
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> >> This is a design restriction in D-Bus."
> >> [http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=518390] Well,
> >> that's just stupid, especially for experienced users like myself; I
> >> NEED to be able to use gnome-terminal as root. I don't want a hackish
> >> workaround, I just want it to work as it always has. Is there ANY way
> >> to make D-Bus less restrictive?
> >
> > Well, does this problem happens if user uses sudo mode for gksu.
> >
> > Application-> System Tools-> Configuration Editor:
> > /apps/gksu/sudo-mode
>
> Makes no difference; 'gksu gnome-terminal' fails without a message.
>
> > Also question is what happens if you enter followings in terminal.
> >
> > $ su -c gnome-terminal
> > $ sudo gnome-terminal
> > $ sudo -H gnome-terminal
Hmmm ... so this
> All fail with "Failed to contact the GConf daemon; exiting."
are coming not from gksu but from gnome-terminal.
How about
$ su -c xterm
$ sudo xterm
$ sudo -H xterm
If this works, this bug needs to be assigned to gnome-terminal.
It should drop privilidge to use $SUDO_USER for sudo or $USERNAME for su
which ever is not root before accessing GConf.
> Apparently, dbus will accept changes in a system-local.conf file, so
> I'll see if I can figure out what I need to do in there.
This path may work but is not generic solution for all of us to live with.
> Patrick
>
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