Re: On running gui applications as root

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On 11/17/2015 05:55 PM, Joonas Sarajärvi wrote:
> My impression is that by default in fedora, virt-manager runs as
> non-root. I guess it might ask for the root password in order to
> manage the libvirtd that runs as privileged mode, but even in that
> case the user interface would run as your normal user.

Sure, but even that is a UI regression: applications which ask for
the root password discourage long root passwords and train people
to type the root password whenever it's asked for.  I should not
even need to know the root password.

Andrew.

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