Bug#857391: gnome-logs does not prompt the user to elevate privileges

John Scott jscott at posteo.net
Wed May 23 14:43:43 BST 2018


Package: gnome-logs
Version: 3.28.2-1
Followup-For: Bug #857391

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> Unfortunately, it doesn't work under wayland :

GUIs can't be run as root under Wayland, and doing
so in X11 isn't exactly good practice either.

GNOME Logs doesn't need to be run as root to access
the logs. Instead, users can be given permission to
read them by being added to the 'adm' group. 

- -- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers testing-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.16.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages gnome-logs depends on:
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.28.0-2
ii  gsettings-desktop-schemas                    3.28.0-1
ii  libc6                                        2.27-3
ii  libglib2.0-0                                 2.56.1-2
ii  libgtk-3-0                                   3.22.29-3
ii  libpango-1.0-0                               1.42.0-1
ii  libsystemd0                                  238-4

gnome-logs recommends no packages.

gnome-logs suggests no packages.

- -- no debconf information

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