[CentOS] "Untrusted application launcher (desktop launchers)"

Sun Apr 28 18:25:50 UTC 2019
Robert Heller <heller at deepsoft.com>

At Sun, 28 Apr 2019 18:53:21 +0100 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, 2019-04-28 at 12:11 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I am having this problem on Ubuntu 18.04 -- I manage a batch of desktop
> > machines with some convience desktop launchers, which gnome3 insists are
> > "untrusted". With some general websearching reveals that this is a *GNome3*
> > so-called "security" issue
> > (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/commit/1630f5348). I found a thread
> > on the CentOS Forums (I don't have an account there), where another sysadmin
> > is strugling with this issue:
> > 
> > https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=65864&start=10
> > 
> > If anyone has come up with a script that can be dropped into 
> > ~/.config/autostart/ to "fix" this "feature" of gnome3 I would be interested 
> > in it.
> > 
> > 
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> Hi,
> 
> Just chmod +x the desktop files.

That is NOT the problem...

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> That or teach the users how to do things correctly.
> 

Oh, yeah, you really think I am going to get very far telling *non-techies* to:

1) Open up a terminal (right-click on the desktop and select "Open Terminal")
2) Type at the shell prompt (huh? what is a "shell prompt")

   /usr/local/bin/arduino &
   
OR
   gnucash &
   
OR

   scratch &
   
These happen to be the three desktop shortcuts I am providing.  Yes, the last 
two can be found by searching through all available applications, if they 
know what to look for.  It is so much easier to say: click on the light 
blue-green infinity sign for Arduino, click on the pile of money for GnuCash, 
or click on the scratch cat for scratch.

> Regards
> 
> Phil
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