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fixit

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Registered: 2015-01-19

Posts: 129

Whopper of a mistake in a custom action

I did not anticipate this running on a 3.9 Gb image.

It got my CPU usage way up. :-)

code echo password | sudo -S geany %f /code

I only want it running on text files.

How can I avoid that?

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Ubuntu-Mate 24.04

ToZ

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From: Canada

Registered: 2011-06-02

Posts: 11,482

Re: Whopper of a mistake in a custom action

Honestly, you shouldn't use sudo for this kind of stuff. You should transition to using pkexec.

To do so, first create the file /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/geany.policy with the following content:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE policyconfig PUBLIC "-//freedesktop//DTD PolicyKit Policy Configuration 1.0//EN" "https://www.freedesktop.org/standards/PolicyKit/1/policyconfig.dtd">
<policyconfig>
  <vendor>Geany</vendor>
  <vendor_url></vendor_url>
  <icon_name>geany</icon_name>
  <action id="geany">
    <description>Run Geany as root</description>
    <defaults>
      <allow_any>no</allow_any>
      <allow_inactive>auth_admin</allow_inactive>
      <allow_active>auth_admin</allow_active>
    </defaults>
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.path">/usr/bin/geany</annotate>
    <annotate key="org.freedesktop.policykit.exec.allow_gui">true</annotate>
  </action>
</policyconfig>

...and save the file.

Make sure you have a polickit authentication agent running:

ps -ef | grep polkit

Then in your custom action use:

pkexec geany %f

...and you should be prompted for your password to continue.

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fixit

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Registered: 2015-01-19

Posts: 129

Re: Whopper of a mistake in a custom action

Thanks.

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Ubuntu-Mate 24.04