I found a (lengthy) guide to doing this but it is for gksu which is gone. I have to imagine there’s an easy way. I am running Ubuntu. There is no specific use case, it is just a feature I miss from windows.
I found a (lengthy) guide to doing this but it is for gksu which is gone. I have to imagine there’s an easy way. I am running Ubuntu. There is no specific use case, it is just a feature I miss from windows.
Nope. Running GUI as root in the same X server as unprivileged apps is insecure because each of them can take control over privileged window. IDK if this issue has been addressed in Wayland, but anyway there are no wayland-only distros nowadays.
Any X window can control any other X window for sure, but I’m not sure why a malicious program would go through nautilus when they can just
aliassudo in .bashrc. It’s not like Linux users tend to do regular virus scans anyway.Wayland does prevent this flaw, but it also makes running GUI programs as root kind of messy.