Am 2019-10-14 01:01, schrieb tom:
> Why in gods name does a centralized instant messenger require root
> privileges on your machine?

Signal uses the electron framework for running in a sandbox. Electron
uses the Linux user namespaces feature for building the sandbox, but
this seems to be disabled in most distros. So they are using a setuid
helper as a workaround. See here:
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/17972

But I don't want to install setuid apps from untrusted sources.

Jochen