Bug 388041

Summary: Can not open Root only files
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: michael <reeves.87>
Component: kwriteAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: christoph, nate, simonandric5
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 17.04.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Ubuntu   
OS: Linux   
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Description michael 2017-12-19 17:40:06 UTC 
Kate and KWrite give a persmisions error if attempting to read a file that is only readable by root. Attempting to sudoedit does not work as sudoedit thinks kate/kwrite has quite without making changes. Therefore there is currently no way to edit such files with kate. This does not apply if the file is read only for current user but writable as root. In this case kate/kwrite will prompt for escalated permissions via polkit.
Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2018-08-17 20:31:06 UTC 
Valid wish, patches welcome.
Comment 2 Christoph Cullmann 2023-02-26 22:18:18 UTC 
We have now polkit integration that handles that.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 337641 ***