Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster
On Friday 05 April 2019 02:37:05 mick crane wrote:
> On 2019-04-04 20:57, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:46:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> The solution seems simple enough, fix wayland. This is after all a
> >> multiuser and multitasking OS, why go out of the way, way out of
> >> the way
> >> to make it work like win-3.0?
> >
> > The notion of running a client as user X to talk to a display server
> > running as user Y seems to directly contradict the Wayland security
> > model. As far as I can understand it, given the rather vague
> > Wayland documentation I've seen so far.
> >
> > I think the "correct" fix for synaptic would be to redesign it to
> > run the
> > graphical interface as you, communicating with an auxiliary process
> > that
> > runs as root which can install and remove packages. That second
> > process
> > could be a child of synaptic, or an independent daemon of some kind.
> > Authentication methods to be determined by whomever does the work.
> >
> > I would not describe this solution as "simple". Maybe you had a
> > different
> > solution in mind.
>
> Making you be root to download stuff off the internet never seemed
> like a good idea.
>
> mick
Good point, Mick. But then who owns /var/cache/apt?
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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