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.
Looks like this long-standing issue affecting all flatpaks run under MATE/marco:
https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/301
Ah okay. And makes sense seeing as it does not ask for escalation at launch. I probably won’t worry about it then. Thanks!!
Likely because of user namespace access