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[Oliver Grawert <ogra@xxxxxxxxxx>]

hi,
Am Montag, den 06.07.2015, 09:51 +0300 schrieb Juhapekka Piiroinen:

> Topic 2/2: Volunteering to write a Firewall App
> - I was also thinking that I could volunteer to implement a firewall
> UI for the ufw, but for that I would need some help on how to setuid
> to root from c++/qml app?
> - I was looking at libpam which is used in the terminal, but that is

you rather want to write a dbus service (if ufw doesnt have one already
where you could just use policykit rules to give the user access) and
ask for its inclusion in the image. then your UI can easily interface
with that without altering any system permissions...

ciao
	oli