Re: Privileged File Access from Desktop Applications

[Malte Kraus <malte.kraus () suse com>]

On Thu, 2019-07-11 at 09:33 -0400,  Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> So these links seem to say that things have been structured so you
> *can't* run GUI apps as root, not that there is a special or unusual
> security problem in Wayland if you run an application as root
I didn't (intend to) say there is an (additional) security problem. I
just tried to succinctly explain why the desktop environments are
coming up with these D-Bus interfaces now.


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Malte Kraus <malte.kraus () suse com>
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