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johnywhy

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Registered: 2011-10-09

Posts: 288

How to make custom gksudo accessible to non-sudo "Desktop" user?

My Mint 19 xfce doesn't have gksudo. I created a new one with:

echo '/usr/bin/pkexec env DISPLAY=$DISPLAY XAUTHORITY=$XAUTHORITY $@'|sudo tee /usr/local/bin/gksudo;chmod +x /usr/local/bin/gksudo

https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. … 5#p1518125

Problem is, i login as a non-sudo "Desktop user". non-sudo users can't use it.

$ gksudo firefox 
Running Firefox as root in a regular user's session is not supported.  ($XAUTHORITY is /home/johny/.Xauthority which is owned by johny.)

Why? How to make it work for non-sudo users? i think i need to do something to polkit.

Last edited by johnywhy (2018-08-28 01:11:33)

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ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,492

Re: How to make custom gksudo accessible to non-sudo "Desktop" user?

The Arch wiki polkit page is pretty comprehensible. You'll need to create a new authorization rule in this particular case.

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