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... 05.Adding policykit support Policykit is used for authenticating the user to do administrative stuff. It adds a nice gui option as gksu and gksudo are depreceated.Install policykit-1-gnome and add the following to the startup <StartupCommand>/usr/lib/policykit-1-gnome/polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1</StartupCommand> ...

... with the execute statement, exec=gdebi-gtk %f, on Antix 19 it needs to reside in /usr/share/applications/antix with the execute statement exec=gksu gdebi-gtk %f.) ******************************************************************************************************* For the initial install ...

... the first user will be able to use it to gain root access (currently, the user will be added to the sudo group). The system will also configure gksu and aptitude to use sudo. You should still verify group membership after logging in as the installed user. =========== zoli62>> Assigning a user ...

... the first user will be able to use it to gain root access (currently, the user will be added to the sudo group). The system will also configure gksu and aptitude to use sudo. You should still verify group membership after logging in as the installed user. =========== zoli62>> Assigning a user ...

... really not the person to ask overall. Haven't even bothered trying the pkexec junk on it. Personally for the time being have fallen back to using gksu. Others could explore stuff like lxqt-sudo, kdesu or whatever else suits a nixers fancy. Gksu is deprecated, gtk-gnome stuff anyway and known to ...

... no worries is good to hear people's opinions. Mine here is obvious though will eventually very likely embrace polkit and policy files but for now gksu/do suits me. Mentioned it was used forever without problems. The lack of maintenance and any security issues were present for quite awhile without ...

wizard10000 wrote: Wonder how many folks here are running X as root?:D

Maybe they came from windows word?

Using a graphical editor with sudo, gksu{,do} or su-to-root runs the whole application with root privileges for the entire time it is open, that's why it's such a bad idea. Any bugs in the program or the underlying graphics stack will be exposed ...

Who the heck thought that was a good idea? It looks like I'll be dumping LightDM soon and going back to using xinit . Quite a few people aren't going to be able to do this as X without a display manager requires a modesetting video driver. root has to launch the driver if the kernel can't. GDM star...

Lol ... this thread, as pretty much every gnu/Linux forum thread ... EVER, has jumped the topic track and headed off into let's talk about anything/everything territory. :D Also as usual I contributed more than my share of off-topicness too. :D So shall continue, I speculate and wonder, with X runni...

wizard10000 wrote:Are you running X using a display manager that's not GDM? If so, X is running under the root account.

Who the heck thought that was a good idea? It looks like I'll be dumping LightDM soon and going back to using xinit.

Phil

... and the simple fix of chown'ing it back. Another reason newbish folks may want to keep a root account around. Obviously I've elected to keep using gksu, thing will likely remain working fine for the life of Buster if I want to use it and for now I do. Mentioned in previous posts, I've used the ...

... invoke root (via gvfs) to save the file. Keep having to ask myself, what the hades am I missing here ?!?!? Using a graphical editor with sudo, gksu{,do} or su-to-root runs the whole application with root privileges for the entire time it is open, that's why it's such a bad idea. Any bugs in ...

anticapitalista wrote:

wizard10000 wrote:
... If so, X is running under the root account. This is the reason I quit using display managers

Why is that so 'wrong' now in buster, but was perfectly acceptable in all previous Debian releases?

It was never acceptable, rootless X is a major improvement.

Bulkley wrote:BTW, I use Openbox with Tint2 and keep this thing as simple as possible.

Same. openbox just works