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

[Dale]

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
>    

Thing is, they are phasing out all the KDE 3 stuff.  I can't even 
install kwrite3 here.

Dale

:-)  :-)