Review Request 129983: [RFC] PoC patch for polkit support in kio.

[David Faure]

> On March 12, 2017, 3:49 p.m., David Faure wrote:
> > src/ioslaves/file/CMakeLists.txt, line 37
> > <https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129983/diff/3/?file=492374#file492374line37>
> >
> >     if (UNIX)
> >        add_subdirectory(kauth)
> >     endif()
> >     
> >     Apparently kauth doesn't exist on Windows.
> 
> Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan wrote:
>     Shall I move all the kauth specific code to file_unix ?

Or in #ifdef Q_OS_UNIX, for the cases where there's shared code in the same method.


- David


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On March 14, 2017, 2:48 p.m., Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan wrote:
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> (Updated March 14, 2017, 2:48 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Frameworks, David Faure and Elvis Angelaccio.
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> Repository: kio
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> Description
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> This is regarding the GSOC idea https://community.kde.org/GSoC/2017/Ideas#Project:_Polkit_support_in_KIO.
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> This patch intends to demonstrate one possible approach to provide polkit support in kio. Here its only for the delete operation. This is based on the patch in task https://phabricator.kde.org/T5070.
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> The approach is as follows;
> 1. Whenever file ioslave gets access denied error it calls the method *execWithRoot* with the action that requires priviledge, the path of items
>    upon which action needs to be performed and a warning ID as arguments.
> 2. *execWithRoot* then executes the KAuth::Action *org.kde.kio.file.execute*. 
> 3. This Kauth::Action has its Persistence set too 'session'. This means that after authentication the restrictions are dropped for a while, for    
>    about 5 minutes. This is similar to the behaviour of sudo command.
> 4. During this time we can perform any action as a privileged user without any authentication. So to prevent any mishap i added a warning box which
>    would popup before performing any action(only during this period).
> 5. After the said time interval the root privileges are droped and calling *execWithRoot* should show the usual authentication dialog.
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> Diffs
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>   src/ioslaves/file/CMakeLists.txt b9132ce 
>   src/ioslaves/file/file.h 109ea80 
>   src/ioslaves/file/file.cpp eaf6c88 
>   src/ioslaves/file/file_unix.cpp 82eb11a 
>   src/ioslaves/file/kauth/CMakeLists.txt PRE-CREATION 
>   src/ioslaves/file/kauth/file.actions PRE-CREATION 
>   src/ioslaves/file/kauth/helper.h PRE-CREATION 
>   src/ioslaves/file/kauth/helper.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/129983/diff/
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> Testing
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> File Attachments
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> warning dialog
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2017/03/09/d42570e8-aedf-4c02-801e-362a68755c2c__polkit_integration.png
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chinmoy Ranjan Pradhan
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