----- Original Message ----- > Recently, I filed a bug (1274451) about running virt-manager on Wayland. > As it turns out that this is applicable to running gui applications as > root on Wayland in general, the scope was changed (see Cole's comments). > > As Halfline points out, the decision needs to be made whether to allow > gui applications to be run as root. I figured I'd bring this up for > discussion in the hopes that a decision may be made whether or not to > allow this. > > In the instance that the decision is made to not allow gui applications > root access, then we will also need to figure out a sane way to have > applications that require more than the usual set of user priviledges to > continue to work across multiple compositors and window managers that > may or may not have the necessary authentication agents built-in. We already have those mechanisms: polkit (né PolicyKit) and D-Bus. This is how we control backlights, LEDs, network connections, Bluetooth, geolocalisation, etc. in a standard Linux desktop. Cheers -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
