u wrote (19 Jan 2016 16:35:08 GMT) :
> Andrew Gallagher:
>>> fyi (not sure if that's intended for users to see or not). In any
>>> case, the installer worked fine on a 4GB usb key, though it did
>>> require me to authenticate with sudo twice. Perhaps a warning
>>> should be made that this will occur in the GUI (or recommend root).
>>> It booted on my hardware that I normally use with tails.
>>
>> I can confirm similar behaviour on stable. The sudo requests do not
>> make it clear that they come from tails-installer, and there was a
>> brief moment of confusion when I got an auth request from syslinux.
>> Less savvy users may be concerned by this. But that's a niggle.
> That's expected behaviour. The installer skips devices which are not
> removable.
And for the authentication requests: yeah, this is suboptimal.
We prefer not to run graphical apps as root, in general, so for example
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10653 was rejected.
Our current best bet is probably
https://labs.riseup.net/code/issues/10700
Cheers!
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