On 2022-10-05 at 11:21, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote: >> On 2022-10-05 at 10:48, debian-user@howorth.org.uk wrote: >>> Perhaps you could explain why the debian manpage specifically >>> says it must be run as root then? >> >> What is "it" here? That is, what is the specific program to whose >> man page you're referring? (Identifying the exact man page would >> probably be best, for that purpose.) > > Perhaps you should read the thread since I already posted its > invocation. Looking all the way back at the original post which started the thread, I find a single mention of 'linssid', in a dense block of other lines. I had, indeed, missed that. (Although I have, in fact, read every message posted thus far in the thread.) The man page I'm finding (online, since I don't have the package installed and don't care to install it just to check this) does discuss running the program as root via xhost - but only as a fallback from running it via gksudo as a more ordinary user. There's a distinction between running as root and running with root access, but it may not be an important one for this purpose. Graphical programs which need to be run with root access are comparatively rare, and may arguably be poorly designed, but this does appear to be one of them. I'd wonder whether making the program suid root could also be a viable option, but that might just bring in the worst of both worlds, so it might not be worth pursuing. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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