Added flag to bypass admin warning

source/constants.py

@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@
 back_clicked = False
 session_splash = ''
 boot_launches = []
+bypass_admin_warning = False
 
 
 # Global debug mode and app_compiled, set debug to false before release

source/headless.py

@@ -2540,8 +2540,13 @@ def open_console(server_name: str, force_start=False):
 
 def run_application():
     # Give an error if elevated
-    if constants.is_admin() and not constants.is_docker:
-        print(f"\n> Error:  Running auto-mcs as {'administrator' if constants.os_name == 'windows' else 'root'} can expose your system to security vulnerabilities\n\nPlease restart with standard user privileges to continue")
+    # Give an error if elevated
+    if (constants.is_admin() and not constants.is_docker) and constants.bypass_admin_warning:
+        print(f"\n\033[31m> Privilege Warning:  Running auto-mcs as {'administrator' if constants.os_name == 'windows' else 'root'} can expose your system to security vulnerabilities\n\nProceed with caution, this configuration is unsupported\033[0m\n\n< press 'ENTER' to continue >")
+        null = input()
+
+    elif (constants.is_admin() and not constants.is_docker) and not constants.bypass_admin_warning:
+        print(f"\n\033[31m> Privilege Error:  Running auto-mcs as {'administrator' if constants.os_name == 'windows' else 'root'} can expose your system to security vulnerabilities\n\nPlease restart with standard user privileges to continue\033[0m")
         return False
 
 

source/menu.py

@@ -3692,6 +3692,8 @@ def fit_to_window(label_widget, path_string, *args):
     version = AlignLabel(color=(0.6, 0.6, 1, 0.2), font_name=os.path.join(constants.gui_assets, 'fonts', f'{constants.fonts["italic"]}.ttf'), font_size=sp(23), markup=True, size_hint=(1.0, 1.0), halign="right", valign="bottom")
     version.__translate__ = False
     version.text = f"auto-mcs[size={round(sp(18))}]  [/size]v{version_text}"
+    if constants.is_admin() and constants.bypass_admin_warning:
+        version.text = f"[color=#FF8793]{version.text}[/color]"
 
     text_layout.bind(pos=functools.partial(fit_to_window, label, path_list))
     text_layout.bind(size=functools.partial(fit_to_window, label, path_list))
@@ -9591,7 +9593,19 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs):
     # Prompt update/show banner when starting up
     def on_enter(self, *args):
         global shown_disk_error
-        if constants.is_admin():
+
+        if constants.is_admin() and constants.bypass_admin_warning:
+            def admin_error(*_):
+                self.show_popup(
+                    "warning",
+                    "Privilege Warning",
+                    f"Running auto-mcs as ${'administrator' if constants.os_name == 'windows' else 'root'}$ can expose your system to security vulnerabilities.\n\nProceed with caution, this configuration is unsupported",
+                    None
+                )
+            Clock.schedule_once(admin_error, 0.5)
+            return
+
+        elif constants.is_admin():
             def admin_error(*_):
                 self.show_popup(
                     "warning",
@@ -9677,7 +9691,8 @@ def generate_menu(self, **kwargs):
 
 
         version_text = f"{constants.app_version}{' (dev)' if constants.dev_version else ''}"
-        version = Label(pos=(330, 200), pos_hint={"center_y": 0.77}, color=(0.6, 0.6, 1, 0.5), font_name=os.path.join(constants.gui_assets, 'fonts', f'{constants.fonts["italic"]}.ttf'), font_size=sp(23))
+        color = "#FF8793" if constants.is_admin() else (0.6, 0.6, 1, 0.5)
+        version = Label(pos=(330, 200), pos_hint={"center_y": 0.77}, color=color, font_name=os.path.join(constants.gui_assets, 'fonts', f'{constants.fonts["italic"]}.ttf'), font_size=sp(23))
         version.__translate__ = False
         version.text = f"v{version_text}{(7 - len(version_text)) * '  '}"
         splash.add_widget(version)
@@ -26334,7 +26349,7 @@ def raise_window(*a):
 
         # Process --launch flag
         if constants.boot_launches:
-            if not constants.is_admin():
+            if not constants.is_admin() or constants.bypass_admin_warning:
 
                 def launch_server(*_):
                     for server in constants.boot_launches:

source/wrapper.py

@@ -70,6 +70,7 @@
         parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', default='', help='execute auto-mcs with verbose console logging', action='store_true')
         parser.add_argument('-l', '--launch', type=str, default='', help='specify a server name (or list of server names) to launch automatically', metavar='"Server 1, Server 2"')
         parser.add_argument('--reset', default='', help='reset global configuration file before launch', action='store_true')
+        parser.add_argument('--bypass-admin-warning', default='', help='allow launch as admin/root (not recommended)', action='store_true')
 
         # For now, Windows doesn't support headless when compiled due to the GUI entrypoint from Pyinstaller
         if constants.os_name != 'windows' or not constants.app_compiled:
@@ -81,6 +82,7 @@
         # Assign parsed arguments to global variables
         constants.debug = args.debug
         reset_config = args.reset
+        constants.bypass_admin_warning = args.bypass_admin_warning
         if constants.os_name != 'windows' or not constants.app_compiled:
             constants.headless = args.headless