Re: flatpak and root access

2020-04-06 Thread Nicolas George
Reco (12020-04-06): > It's simple, and security is just a part of a bigger problem here. > The very purpose of flatpak is to enable the user running untrusted > software (i.e. not obtained by usual OS means). > So, for instance, if the author of the software wants their software to > perform "telem

Re: flatpak and root access

2020-04-06 Thread Reco
Hi. On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 12:00:18PM -0500, Anil F Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I know there have been some security concerns with flatpak, which are > too high level for me to understand, It's simple, and security is just a part of a bigger problem here. The very purpose of flatpak is t

flatpak and root access

2020-04-06 Thread Anil F Duggirala
hello, I know there have been some security concerns with flatpak, which are too high level for me to understand, but I want to ask, is it normal for flatpak to ask for the root password when installing a new package? Are these packages not supposed to be sandboxed? thank you,