| Summary: | Disabling root access in dolphin is security theater | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] dolphin | Reporter: | Jonwsb |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Dolphin Bug Assignee <dolphin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | elvis.angelaccio |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 17.04.0 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Jonwsb
2017-05-17 03:19:32 UTC
(In reply to Jonwsb from comment #0) > Disabling root access in dolphin is security theater and does nothing to > actually make a system more secure. It fixes a root escalation attack, how is that not making the system more secure. > Also there is still a right click option > to open folders as root which does not work anymore until this is reverted. That's something that your distribution added, there is nothing we can do for that. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 179678 *** |