[kio-admin] [Bug 475080] Add open as administrator button to open file menu

[Oded Arbel]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475080

Oded Arbel <oded at geek.co.il> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |oded at geek.co.il
         Resolution|---                         |INTENTIONAL
             Status|CONFIRMED                   |NEEDSINFO

--- Comment #1 from Oded Arbel <oded at geek.co.il> ---
I'm not sure this is needed - KDE applications, such as Kate, should support
using polkit to read and write files with root permissions. Non-KDE apps don't
use KIO and therefor can't take advantage of the "admin:///" protocol anyway.

If I understand correctly, the way the KDE desktop portal works with non-KDE
applications, is that if you use a remote protocol ("admin:///" is essentially
a remote file API), then it uses kio-fuse to mount the remote namespace on a
local temp directory so that applications that can only do local file access
can access it. Doing that to "admin:///" is a terrible practice from the point
of security - it basically gives any application that can monitor for this
kio-fuse mount, unfettered access to read and write files with root permission.

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