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<div style="margin: 8px 0; padding: 0 12px; color: #74777D;"><p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">Why is there an ifdef anyway? KAuth has at least a mac backend (no idea how much it works) but adding an ifdef at this level seems the wrong thing to do.</p></div></div>
<div style="margin: 8px 0; padding: 0 12px;"><p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">This method will be used by FileProtocol::mkdir and FileProtocol::chmod which are not virtual method. So when called in windows this must return false for the time being. So IMO ifdef or something similar is necessary. What do you suggest?</p></div></div><br /><div style="border: 1px solid #C7CCD9; border-radius: 3px;"><div style="padding: 0; background: #F7F7F7; border-color: #e3e4e8; border-style: solid; border-width: 0 0 1px 0; margin: 0;"><div style="color: #74777d; background: #eff2f4; padding: 6px 8px; overflow: hidden;"><a style="float: right; text-decoration: none;" href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D6197#inline-25851" rel="noreferrer">View Inline</a><span style="color: #4b4d51; font-weight: bold;">eliasp</span> wrote in <span style="color: #4b4d51; font-weight: bold;">file.h:107</span></div>
<div style="margin: 8px 0; padding: 0 12px; color: #74777D;"><p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">I find <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">execWithRoot()</tt> to be a bit misleading, as the goal shouldn't be to always elevate to <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">root</tt>'s privileges but to only what's required to execute the specific operation (e.g. browse <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">/home/someotheruser</tt> doesn't need <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">root</tt>'s privileges but only <tt style="background: #ebebeb; font-size: 13px;">someotheruser</tt>'s privileges).</p>
<p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">Always elevating to root is IMHO by far too permissive.</p></div></div>
<div style="margin: 8px 0; padding: 0 12px;"><p style="padding: 0; margin: 8px;">I agree with you on the part that execWithRoot() is slightly misleading. So I changed it to execWithElevatedPrivilege(). And acquiring somotheruser's privileges still requires elevated privilege does it not?</p></div></div></div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R241 KIO</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D6197" rel="noreferrer">https://phabricator.kde.org/D6197</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>chinmoyr, elvisangelaccio, Frameworks, dfaure<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>eliasp, aacid<br /></div>