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| From | Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster |
| Date | 2019-04-05 11:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <xJt1f-55F-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <xJ8g9-im-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <xJgGJ-5wA-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <xJqG6-3uO-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Friday 05 April 2019 02:37:05 mick crane wrote: > On 2019-04-04 20:57, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 04, 2019 at 03:46:52PM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> The solution seems simple enough, fix wayland. This is after all a > >> multiuser and multitasking OS, why go out of the way, way out of > >> the way > >> to make it work like win-3.0? > > > > The notion of running a client as user X to talk to a display server > > running as user Y seems to directly contradict the Wayland security > > model. As far as I can understand it, given the rather vague > > Wayland documentation I've seen so far. > > > > I think the "correct" fix for synaptic would be to redesign it to > > run the > > graphical interface as you, communicating with an auxiliary process > > that > > runs as root which can install and remove packages. That second > > process > > could be a child of synaptic, or an independent daemon of some kind. > > Authentication methods to be determined by whomever does the work. > > > > I would not describe this solution as "simple". Maybe you had a > > different > > solution in mind. > > Making you be root to download stuff off the internet never seemed > like a good idea. > > mick Good point, Mick. But then who owns /var/cache/apt? Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2019-04-05 11:10 +0200
Re: 'synaptic' removed from buster mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2019-04-05 12:00 +0200
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