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brut

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FAQ

1. What is brut?
   A standalone GUI (graphical user interface) for admin tasks in FreeBSD, e.g. disk partitioning.
   
   
2. Screenshots:
   Main view:
   
   Partition Editor:
   

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3. What are the dependencies?
   gtk3 and sudo. "pkg install gtk3" is recommended, since that one is large.
   
   

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4. Is it safe?
   In general, it translates mouse clicks into shell commands.
   Start it as a regular user. For root commands, it has a sudo(8) backend.
   The password is piped to sudo via a named pipe (there is no other way). You can change
   sudo behavior if you edit its configuration file /usr/local/etc/sudoers.
   Currently there are no plans to use polkit.
   
   

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5. How do I install it?
   *edit: brut is now officially a port. So at some point, "pkg install brut" will do.

Install it just like any other port:

• Make sure you have /usr/ports directory.
  
• Download ports/Makefile and ports/pkg-descr
  
• Run "make makesum" and "make install clean"
  
• (recommended: Run "dbus-uuidgen --ensure", for dbus)
  
• The start command is: brut :)
  
  

Or build as a standalone binary:

1. Download the source files.
2. Make sure you have gtk3 and sudo installed.
   
3. Run "make LOCALBASE=/usr/local"
   
4. Start the binary (./brut).
   
   

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