Bug 475080

Summary:	Add open as administrator button to open file menu
Product:	[Frameworks and Libraries] kio-admin	Reporter:	Eric Armbruster <eric1>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Unassigned bugs mailing-list <unassigned-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	feus73, nate, oded, sitter
Priority:	NOR
Version:	23.08.1
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
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Description Eric Armbruster 2023-10-01 08:00:03 UTC

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Currently you can open a file in any application by using the admin:/// protocol from cmdline
2. There is no appropriate GUI support in most applications (except dolphin) to open a file as administrator
3. For instance press Ctrl+O in Kate or Firefox

OBSERVED RESULT
No button to open the file as administrator

EXPECTED RESULT
Button to open the file as administrator (in the bottom right corner of the dialog right next to the current open dialog)

This would be required for the kio open file dialog as well as the portal dialog if kio-admin is installed.
Similarly this would be great for the open folder dialog (e.g. in Kate) aswell.

Comment 1 Oded Arbel 2024-11-04 17:18:23 UTC

I'm not sure this is needed - KDE applications, such as Kate, should support using polkit to read and write files with root permissions. Non-KDE apps don't use KIO and therefor can't take advantage of the "admin:///" protocol anyway.

If I understand correctly, the way the KDE desktop portal works with non-KDE applications, is that if you use a remote protocol ("admin:///" is essentially a remote file API), then it uses kio-fuse to mount the remote namespace on a local temp directory so that applications that can only do local file access can access it. Doing that to "admin:///" is a terrible practice from the point of security - it basically gives any application that can monitor for this kio-fuse mount, unfettered access to read and write files with root permission.

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2024-11-19 03:46:26 UTC

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Comment 3 Bug Janitor Service 2024-12-04 03:46:34 UTC

🐛🧹 This bug has been in NEEDSINFO status with no change for at least 30 days. Closing as RESOLVED WORKSFORME.