Fwd: [AppImage] [Creating AppImages] GNUnet - Appimage Discussion

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Subject: [AppImage] [Creating AppImages] GNUnet - Appimage Discussion
Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2020 18:44:46 +0000
From: probono via AppImage <address@hidden>
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Hello @bulldozer and welcome to AppImage. "No root required" means that 
you can run applications which do not need root rights without the need 
for installation.

With deb and rpm, the user needs to be root in order to be able to 
install anything. In contrast, AppImages do not need to be installed, 
and hence you need no root rights for installation.#

If an application needs root rights, this does not go away simply 
because the application is inside an AppImage.

I am not familiar with GNUnet or how it works. Can't it run in the 
normal user account of the user running it, like most desktop 
applications do? An application (no matter whether running from an 
AppImage, a deb, rpm or otherwise) needs root rights if the application 
wants to edit system files in `/etc`.

If you want to run the application inside an AppImage as suid, you need 
to set the AppImage itself as suid. (Although extra care is needed if 
you run anything as suid - hence I would advise against it. Most normal 
desktop applications don't need it; they can request additional 
permissions as required using polkit.)

Does GNUnet even offer an AppImage?





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