Dropping kdesudo
Aleix Pol
aleixpol at kde.org
Thu Sep 7 10:35:19 UTC 2017
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 3:19 AM, Dale Trombley <buzzmandt at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm one of those that always assumed anything graphic needed kdesudo (as
> opposed to gksudo). Am I wrong in that assumption?
Yes, no graphical software should be ever run as root. It's a major
security problem as it exposes the problems with X11 to root
privileges.
If you find an application that requires it, feel free to report it as a bug.
Aleix
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