[Gambas-user] run project as root

Benoît Minisini gambas at ...1...
Sat Sep 22 14:35:38 CEST 2012


Le 22/09/2012 14:32, Benoît Minisini a écrit :
> Le 22/09/2012 14:26, Jussi Lahtinen a écrit :
>> Thinking this bit more... I think it would be very difficult to safely
>> enable IDE to run projects as root!
>> So, use virtual machine, there you can mess all you want without problems
>> (as long as you back up sources outside of the virtual machine).
>>
>> Jussi
>>
>
> The Desktop.RunAsRoot() method may help the IDE to do that?
>

Mmm... No. By looking at the xdg-utils source code, I don't think that 
Desktop.RunAsRoot() does anything useful. It should be removed or 
rewritten differently...

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Benoît Minisini




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