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

[Dale]

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> 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
>    

I see that it could be a security concern but it is done locally, not 
over some remote connection or something, and I have to edit config 
files as root a lot anyway.  Basically, I'm going to have to edit them 
as root regardless of what I use to do it.  I prefer it to be something 
that can be done easily so I chose to do it the same way I always have 
done it.

It sounds like KDE is getting a little to much like windoze to me.  
Maybe it is time for me to start looking for a different GUI.  After 
all, if I can't keep my system up to date, running Kwrite as root is 
going to be the least of my problems.  This just seems to add to issues 
I already have with KDE.

Thanks for the info.

Dale

:-)  :-)