Wayland security and graphical applications

[Marc Deslauriers]

Hi,

On 2018-01-09 09:30 AM, bodhi zazen wrote:
> Wayland is relatively new technology for Ubuntu and there are issues of running
> graphical applications with elevated privileges using sudo / gksu etc.
> 
> This has resulted in frustration and at times heated debate in the community.
> 
> I would ask the TB to review wayland and policies and give a statement of
> clarification to be used by developers and end users as clarification of how
> graphical secuity / polkit etc is to be managed as we migrate to wayland.
> 
> There are at times heated discussions regarding wayland, graphical applications,
> and sudo / xhost and some sort of statement or policy review from the TB would
> add clarity to the conversation, a roadmap for developers, and understanding on
> Wayland and the migration process to end users.
> 
> Thank you for your consideration.
> 

Do you have more details of the sort of clarification you are looking for?
Do you have a concrete issue that has a bug linked to it that we can look at?

Thanks,

Marc.