D12795: Re-allow running Dolphin as the root user (but still not using sudo)

Vlad Zagorodniy noreply at phabricator.kde.org
Fri May 11 19:19:58 BST 2018


zzag added a comment.


  In D12795#261206 <https://phabricator.kde.org/D12795#261206>, @markg wrote:
  
  > Why is kdesu doing it's own thing?
  >  I always considered kdesu to be the "graphical sudo" version.. Can't it just set the environment variables that sudo uses? Perhaps set additional ones if needed, but that it is - in terms of environment variables - compatible with sudo?
  
  
  That's not the only problem with kdesu:
  
  - it sets wrong USER
  - it doesn't set KDESU_UID
  - it doesn't set KDESU_GID
  - it doesn't set KDESU_COMMAND
  - etc

REPOSITORY
  R318 Dolphin

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D12795

To: ngraham, markg, elvisangelaccio
Cc: elvisangelaccio, mmustac, Fuchs, markg, graesslin, nicolasfella, zzag, kfm-devel, emmanuelp, spoorun, navarromorales, isidorov, firef, andrebarros
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