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

[yahoo-pier_andreit]

Dale ha scritto:
> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>> Dale ha scritto:
>>    
>>> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>>>      
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>>      
>> usually I use konqueror3 for this, it works well with kwrite3
>>
>>    
> 
> Are you talking about Konqueror from KDE 3 or is there some other 
> Konqueror package floating around?  

Yes konqueror from kde3

> I'm trying to get rid of KDE 3 stuff 
> so that option won't be available for much longer.  Either this will be 
> doable with KDE 4 or some other GUI.
> 
> Dale
> 
> :-)  :-)
I don't know if konqueror from kde3 needs other kde3 stuff, kde says
that kde3 software runs on kd4 natively, but it is the best file manager
I meet until now, better than dolphin and than konqueror4, and even
isn't supported for file management is enough developed I think.

Pier :-)