Bug 369144

Summary:	Partitionmanager lack of privilege under wayland.
Product:	[Applications] partitionmanager	Reporter:	Tony <jodr666>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Andrius Štikonas <andrius>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	grave
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	2.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Tony 2016-09-21 08:10:51 UTC

When i run it i get the window asking for "root" password, but as soon as i typed it and hit OK i get another window saying i don't have "administrative privileges".

On the "run as root" window this is the command being run: "partitionmanager --dontsu"


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Tony 2016-09-21 08:37:17 UTC

I found this:
http://gparted-forum.surf4.info/viewtopic.php?id=17446

Although the 2nd workaround works, it seems is not a KDE exclusive problem.

Comment 2 Andrius Štikonas 2016-09-21 11:46:33 UTC

Well, this is part of a wider problem. On wayland you can't easily run applications as root. They have to use KAuth to obtain privileges. But Partition Manager uses root A LOT, so porting everything to KAuth very non trivial. Will take some time...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 259678 ***