Bug 379927

Summary:	Disabling root access in dolphin is security theater
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:

Description Jonwsb 2017-05-17 03:19:32 UTC

Disabling root access in dolphin is security theater and does nothing to actually make a 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.

Comment 1 Elvis Angelaccio 2017-05-17 08:36:02 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 ***