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All system daemons are running this way. It's the standard way to isolate networking services on UNIX.
by drran 5y ago
All system daemons are running this way. It's the standard way to isolate networking services on UNIX.
- user-the-name 5y agoAnd no user-facing UI apps do this or are built for it, and no desktop environment has any kind of support for doing it. It just doesn't work in practice.
- drran 5y agoDesktop environments have nothing to do with that: it's the job of distribution. `gksu` is popular to run graphical apps under root or another user, for example, until it was removed from distributions because distributions don't want to allow users to run untrusted apps as root.