On 4 November 2017 at 06:08, Lokesh Chakka <lvenkatakumarcha...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear Felipe, > > I have refereed the link. As the application I am writing needs root > privileges, I must use sudo ./a.out. No other option.
Of *course* there are other options for you: this is software development, not surgery. The appropriate course of action, as Felipe outlined, is: - split the business logic that requires administrator privileges of your application from the GUI bits - move that business into a daemon listening on the system bus and exposing a DBus interface - use polkit to deal with the privilege escalation, and write a small policy file - have the GUI call into the DBus interface on the system bus Alternatively: - do not write a GUI application - require running under X instead of Wayland, and assume responsibility for the potential security side effects; not that running applications under X as root is recommended, either Running GUI applications as administrator means that your exposing yours and your users' data to a massive, unaudited code base, that may or may not open random shared modules — like input methods, image loaders — and parse multiple files from random locations. It's more secure to start from a completely sandboxed environment and gradually opening it up on demand, than running a completely open environment and then closing it down. Ciao, Emmanuele. -- https://www.bassi.io [@] ebassi [@gmail.com] _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
