Can't run apps requiring elevated privileges on artful

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi, Oli!

On 25/10/2017 13:04, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> Am Mittwoch, den 25.10.2017, 12:38 +0200 schrieb Gilles Gravier:
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Well. Synaptic definitely broken. Gnome terminal as well...
>>
> i highly doubt anyone will consider "sudo gnome-terminal" or "pkexec
> gnome-terminal" not working a bug ... you really do not want to run the
> whole app as root here but instead have a root shell available inside
> it. so the right way to use it would be:
>
> gnome-terminal -e "sudo -s"
>
> which will give you a root shell just fine but only elevate privileges
> inside the spawned terminal ...
While I *FULLY" agree with you on the principle... I also think that, on
the principle, any graphical application needs to be fixed to operate
fully under the new model. Because somebody some day will try to use it
that way and it will break when it was working before...

Gilles