Bug 210373

Summary:	ignores work path of desktop shortcut if "Remember password" is set
Product:	[Applications] kdesu	Reporter:	Flavio Stanchina <flavio>
Component:	kdesud	Assignee:	kdesu bugs tracker <kdesu-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Debian testing
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Flavio Stanchina 2009-10-12 21:30:13 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.3.2)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages

I created a desktop shortcut that launches xterm as root, and I set the work path to "/". If I select "Remember password", the xterm opens in $HOME/Documents. If I leave "Remember password" unset, it opens in / as expected.

Comment 1 Flavio Stanchina 2009-10-12 21:42:15 UTC

I looked at the processes involved with these simple commands:

for p in /proc/*; do \
  if (readlink $p/exe | grep -q kdesu); then \
    ls -l $p/cwd $p/exe; fi; done

The result is:

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   ... /proc/3566/cwd -> /home/flavio/Documents
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   ... /proc/3566/exe -> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesud
lrwxrwxrwx 1 flavio ... /proc/5676/cwd -> /
lrwxrwxrwx 1 flavio ... /proc/5676/exe -> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   ... /proc/5696/cwd -> /home/flavio/Documents
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   ... /proc/5696/exe -> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesud
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   ... /proc/5707/cwd -> /home/flavio/Documents
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root   ... /proc/5707/exe -> /usr/lib/kde4/libexec/kdesu_stub

(group and dates omitted for brevity)

Apparently, kdesud doesn't "get" the working directory from kdesu.

Comment 2 Flavio Stanchina 2010-10-17 23:25:29 UTC

Bug still present in KDE 4.4.5 from Debian testing/unstable.

Comment 3 Oswald Buddenhagen 2010-11-07 19:01:02 UTC

indeed, the kdesud protocol has no provisions for passing a working directory to the command.

Comment 4 Justin Zobel 2021-03-09 23:42:34 UTC

Thank you for the bug report.

As this report hasn't seen any changes in 5 years or more, we ask if you can please confirm that the issue still persists.

If this bug is no longer persisting or relevant please change the status to resolved.