[Gambas-user] Test running app from IDE as root...

[Benoit Minisini]

Le 12/06/2022 à 18:37, Bruce Steers a écrit :
> 
> 
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 at 17:30, Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com 
> <mailto:bsteers4 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     What do you think of this?
>     https://gitlab.com/bsteers4/gambas/-/commit/242afc06b7c791c3280d5c09112797a81c85243a
>     <https://gitlab.com/bsteers4/gambas/-/commit/242afc06b7c791c3280d5c09112797a81c85243a>
>     (main commit)
>     https://gitlab.com/bsteers4/gambas/-/commit/ef3939d39cc8666cd6e8fe48608c4b5ffde53b73
>     <https://gitlab.com/bsteers4/gambas/-/commit/ef3939d39cc8666cd6e8fe48608c4b5ffde53b73>
>     (sanity check)
> 
>     I've added an option on the Debugging/Arguments page to Run As Root
>     using pkexec.
>     prefixes gbx with the same method Desktop.RunAsRoot() uses.
> 
>     Good idea? terrible idea?
>     Seems to work
> 
>     Respects
>     Bruce
> 
> 
> PS. not 100% sure i have put the pkexec insertion in the best place in 
> the code, line 1291 seemed right to me but there are other things i do 
> not use like Test and valgrind so do not know of effects on these.
> All the best
> BruceS
> 

If it's useful, it's a good idea. Then it depends if it is correctly 
implemented.

Running a project from the IDE now has many paths:

- Running in the IDE terminal or in an external terminal.
- Debugging an already running process.
- Debugging through ssh.
- Running through the embedded server.
- Running a project test suite.

For some of these paths, running with pkexec has sense, for the others 
it does not.

Is your implementation correct?

-- 
Benoît Minisini.