Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.5) Installed from: Gentoo Packages OS: Linux I opened konsole and wrote with nano (and root privileges) a text file and saved it in /home/anuser/text.txt (ext3 partition). ls -l /home/anuser/text.txt gives -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5... Now If I login kde with "anuser", go to system:/media, open that file (kate will open it) and try to modify it I discover that I can do it (and save it automatically changing the owner to "anuser")! If I do the same simply opening konqueror from the start menu I can't modify that file. It seems that when I open system:/media I gain some kind of root privilege (and I did not enter any password).
I've seen that kde-3.5.7 has this bug too while 3.5.6 seems to be immune. Maybe if someone could help finding the right kpart or module in witch this bug should be limited, I can try to fix it. It seems to be some suid fault btw. The bug is also reproducible using dolphin instead of konqueror but I suppose it's some lower level module fault. I've also seen that user can only reply this bug in his own home(or some other folder which he owns).
Yeah, try that: cp text.txt mynewtxt.txt vi mynewtxt.txt rm text.txt mv mynewtxt.txt text.txt No suid involved. Might be suprising, but no bug from what I can see.
I knew that from the terminal all works fine, the problem is when you open the file (i.e. with kate) passing through system:/media
KDE3 is unmaintained now. I don't think this problem apply to KDE4.