Fedora 20 Update: unetbootin-603-1.fc20

[Paul Cartwright]

On 05/01/2014 11:22 PM, Tim wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 22:23 +0000, updates at fedoraproject.org wrote:
>> UNetbootin allows you to create bootable Live USB drives for a variety of
>> Linux distributions from Windows or Linux, without requiring you to burn a CD.
>> You can either let it download one of the many distributions supported
>> out-of-the-box for you, or supply your own Linux .iso file if you've already
>> downloaded one or your preferred distribution isn't on the list.
> I thought I'd give this a try, and ran it from the menu, since it was
> listed there, only to get this warning message:
>
>   UNetbootin must be run as root.  Close it, and re-run using either:
>   sudo /usr/bin/unetbootin
>   or:
>   su - -c '/usr/bin/unetbootin'
>
> Then it appears to run, if I close the warning.  I haven't actually
> tested, yet, whether it manages to run successfully.  But a few things
> spring to mind:
>
> If it really *requires* to be run as root, why is it in a menu where it
> cannot?  We don't have a "run as" (someone else) option like Windows
> has.  Well, at least the mate desktop does not.
>
> Why doesn't the menu call it in a way where appropriate permissions are
> requested as you call it?  Other things that need it, such as various
> system configurators, get you to type in your password, or the root
> password, before the thing continues on.
>
> If it has to be run from the command line, why's there a menu entry?
>
> Have I missed something?  (Before I go through the tortures of trying to
> make a bugzilla report.)
>
the run as root - KDE su box says " Command: /usr/bin/unetbootin
rootcheck=no"

so if it says rootcheck=no, why is it requesting root password??

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Paul Cartwright
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