https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1992
--- Comment #17 from T.C. Hollingsworth <tc(a)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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