[Bug 1992] Review Request: winetricks - Package manager for Win32 DLLs and applications on POSIX

[RPM Fusion Bugzilla]

https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1992

--- Comment #17 from T.C. Hollingsworth <tc at tchol.org> 2012-01-19 10:23:05 CET ---
(In reply to comment #15)
> Maybe one last reason: if gksudo or kdesudo is not present, winetricks will use
> sudo. Fedora doesn't provide gksudo, neither kdesudo. If winetricks is launched
> through the menu and need to mount an ISO image, the sudo prompt will be
> obviously invisible to the user and then discarded... How will you manage it
> then?
On Ubuntu, gksudo and kdesudo are just symlinks to gksu and kdesu, upstream
tools that work with both su and sudo.  I'll file a bug upstream to get them to
use those instead for better cross-distro compatibility.

> Since sudo/gksudo/kdesudo in winetricks is only called with /bin/mount to mount
> ISO files, maybe we could avoid to ask any root permission try to mount ISO
> images without requiring root rights (using fuse for example, with fuseiso).
That's an even better solution which also should be suggested upstream.

(In reply to comment #16)
> Having a graphical prompt asking for the root password is a security hole?
pkexec requests the currently running user's password (like sudo), and will
fail if the logged in user doesn't have authorization for the requested task
via PolicyKit.

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