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

[Bruce Steers]

On Sun, 12 Jun 2022 at 20:57, Bruce Steers <bsteers4 at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Sun, 12 Jun 2022, 20:09 Benoit Minisini, <
> benoit.minisini at gambas-basic.org> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>
>
> Like I said I am not sure, I do not use any of the above mentioned paths
> so do not know how/what to test or if it makes sense to use it in such
> cases. But then I should think the programmer would know if to enable it or
> not makes sense. I could merge request and let you modify conditions if you
> concur it's useful.
>
> As for being useful. I think very useful.
> I have many root applications that would be handy to test as root but I
> don't really want the ide run as root (I'd have to configure settings, I
> never run ide as root)
>
> Regardless of "should it be used with some paths or not?" I think it's
> placement is correct. It inserts the pkexec prefix text just before any
> Exec command I could see in the Design.class
>

Darn it, yesterday i had an error message, in Design.class Process_Read() ,
never seen that before and i was using the RunAsRoot option :(

BruceS
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