Re: package managers problem
On Tue, Jun 20, 2023 at 04:56:39PM -0400, paulf@quillandmouse.com wrote:
> Apparently the broader dictum is "never run GUI apps as root". Why?
> What's special about GUI apps versus those you run in a terminal?
The extreme example is a web browser. Your typical web browser probably
has thousands of bugs in it.
GUI apps are big and complicated. Running them with elevated privileges
is just asking for problems.
In a sensible design, the GUI part would run as you, and it would send
requests to a daemon that runs as root, or simply issue shell commands
with "sudo" or something, to do the parts that need extra privs.
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