Summary: | Entering root password doesn't grant root privs, when launched from kicker | ||
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Product: | [Applications] partitionmanager | Reporter: | Jonathan Wakely <zilla> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Andrius Štikonas <andrius> |
Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
Severity: | crash | CC: | argonel |
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | 3.1 | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Fedora RPMs | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Jonathan Wakely
2017-10-09 17:46:23 UTC
Hmm, not sure what is hapenning. Is your kdesu configured to use su or sudo? In principle we want to move away from running KPM as root. kdesu is obsolete. But porting to KAuth/Polkit will take time, as quite a lot of refactoring is needed (e.g. need to port away from libparted). Once KPM runs rootless, this should resolve anyway... (In reply to Andrius Štikonas from comment #1) > Hmm, not sure what is hapenning. Is your kdesu configured to use su or sudo? I have no idea. I have no ~/.config/kdesurc file. I used kwriteconfig5 to tell it to use sudo, and tried to start partitionmanager from kicker again. This time when I entered my root password and pressed enter the dialog froze, and I had to kill it! (Close the window, then confirm I wanted to terminate the non-responsive application). If I change back to using 'su' I get the original behaviour. So it looks like using 'sudo' doesn't work either, but fails differently (I guess I need to edit sudoers to allow it? but it shouldn't just hang). Yeah, something is strange. It shouldn't just hang. Maybe try getting some help from Fedora users. This might be configuration issue, so they might be able to help more. OK thanks Well, KAuth support is improving (even though it is not released yet), so I'll mark this as a dublicate of KAuth bug. Once KAuth support lands in, kdesu or sudo will no longer be used. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 259678 *** |