[kde-linux] Dolphin opening a text file as root with Kwrite.

[Anne Wilson]

On Thursday 18 February 2010 10:30:51 Dale wrote:
> I have Dolphin, the replacement for Konqueror, set up to run as root.
> When I go to the "K menu" and select Dolphin, it asks for the root
> password and I enter it in.  Dolphin opens fine, no problems.  The
> problem starts when I go somewhere that requires root privileges.  If
> I try to enter the /root directory, I get this error at the bottom of
> Dolphin:
> 
> "Can not start process.  Can not talk to Klauncher.  The name
> org.kde.klauncher was not provided by any service files."

It's intended behaviour.  Apparently running a gui for text-editing has some 
possible security issues - don't ask me for details, I don't know them - so 
it's discouraged.  I'm sure there will be ways of side-stepping this, but 
since I don't know whether I'd then be opening a can of worms I've accepted 
that and come up with work-arounds.

If I know the path of the file to edit,  I open a root konsole and type 
'kwrite path/to/file'.  If I don't, I start dolphin in a root konsole - which 
doesn't bring that error message.  Either way, I accept that there could be 
some vulnerability, so I close the session as soon as I have finished.

Anne
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