[Interest] Qt, running as root (sudo/setuid), DBus and OS X

Thiago Macieira thiago.macieira at intel.com
Sun Sep 18 21:56:39 CEST 2016


On sexta-feira, 16 de setembro de 2016 14:22:03 PDT René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is it possible to use Qt-based applications on OS X that run with elevated
> privileges (= as root), in general and 

It's possible, but not recommended.

> if they need to connect to the user's session dbus?

It's not possible to connect to another user's session bus.

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