I run Debian 13 with MATE. I recently switched from the distro release to the flatpak version of FreeCAD, as the distro release is of course a few versions behind. Bear with me, as I am very new to using Flatpak or anything other than normal apt packages.

I just noticed that FreeCAD announces it is running as super user in the window title bar.

The interesting part is it doesn’t ask for privilege escalation with password entry when I launch it.

Seeing as FreeCAD never ran as SU with the distro release installed via apt, and I don’t think the program does anything that really needs SU… As much as I trust FreeCAD, this seems like a security hole I’d rather not have.

Is the Flatpak version running inside it’s own “box” and it isn’t getting SU permissions across my whole system? Or what am I missing here.

  • Mihies@programming.dev
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    2 days ago

    I wonder where it was installed from (flathub?) and whether it has something to do with the linux version. Since at least two of us don’t see a superuser notification (turdas and me) but we are both on Fedora.

    • empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Yes I installed it from Flathub. IanTwenty’s comment says it is a longstanding bug with the MATE environment I am using, where flatpak’s running as a sandboxes process user ID show up as SU in the title bar when they actually aren’t.